{"product_id":"random-universe-paperback","title":"Random Universe - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe universe this book describes may be random, but it is also both gorgeous and familiar. The poet is in love with the details of the world and brings them to the reader like a bouquet delivered right to your door. There is also wisdom and warmth in these poems, a willingness to engage with life and also to see it from a philosopher's perch. So many adjectives apply to this book: \u003ci\u003egorgeous, wise, erudite, funny, fun, surprising, heartfelt.\u003c\/i\u003e There are many pages to savor again and again. After you read \u003ci\u003eRandom Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, you will feel as if you've had a delicious meal with an even more delicious conversation. --Zack Rogow, author of \u003ci\u003eIrreverent Litanies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Miller's new poetry collection is a remarkably inclusive work, with a playfulness in form and structure that feels wonderfully inventive. In these pages, she takes on ekphrastic responses to Cy Twombly's art, \"mistranslations\" of Milosz and Tranströmer, and her own translation of an ancient Egyptian text. She creates list-poems of \"Lost Language\" and \"New Lines for Fortune Cookies\" and writes about the lives of objects. And through it all, she shows her remarkable talent for writing about sensuous joy, joy that is earned, though haunted by history and the poet's place in it. I am glad to sit at the banquet table of her \u003ci\u003eRandom Universe\u003c\/i\u003e and feast. --Julia B. Levine, author of \u003ci\u003eLullaby for the Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Carolyn Miller's \u003ci\u003eRandom Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, the astonishing range of subjects--a reckless polka, a cemetery in Spoleto, the discovery of salvation in the paintings of Cy Twombly--may seem random, but it is a world held together by this poet's fierce and tender gaze. Miller's voice, in her fourth collection, is both companionable and wise, funny and stunningly able to find form and beauty in an incomprehensible world. She gives us the music, again and again, for experiences variously wondrous, cruel, and breathtakingly strange in their \"jazzy beauty and sheer effrontery\" right before our eyes. These are poems of a compassionate observer with remarkable vision, poems that, paradoxically, can awake both calm and wildness in our hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48395826397433,"sku":"9781939639448","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Pb4b2ZCNCt9781939639448.webp?v=1778619143","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/random-universe-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}