{"product_id":"we-the-jury-poems-9781571315311","title":"We the Jury: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in \u003cem\u003eWe the Jury\u003c\/em\u003e: the hard ones, the impossible ones.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an academic dinner party disturbing in its crassness and disaffection to a family struggling to communicate gently the permanence of death, Miller situates his poems in dilemma. He faces moments of profound discomfort, grief, and even joy with a philosopher's curiosity, a father's compassion, and an overarching inquiry at the crossroads of ethics and art: what is the poet's role in making sense of human behavior? A bomb crater-turned-lake \"exploding with lilies,\" a home lost during the late-aughts housing crash--these images and others, powerful and resonant, attempt to answer that question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCandid and vulnerable, Miller sits with us while we puzzle: we all wish we knew what to tell our children about death. But he also pushes past this and other uncertainties, vowing--and inviting us--to \"expand our relationship \/ with Death,\" and with every challenging, uncomfortable subject we meet. In the face of questions that seem impossible to answer, \u003cem\u003eWe the Jury\u003c\/em\u003e offers not a shrug, but curiosity, transparency, a throwing of the arms wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWayne Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePost-\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe City, Our City\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Rilke Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Props\u003c\/i\u003e, named a best poetry book of the year by \u003ci\u003eColdfront Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eOnly the Senses Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award. He has received the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, the Lyric Poetry Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize, and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast. He is cotranslator of two books by the Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo--most recently \u003ci\u003eZodiac\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation--and coeditor of three books: \u003ci\u003eLiterary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTamura Ryuichi: On the Life \u0026amp; Work of a 20th Century Master\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew European Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, and serves as editor\/managing editor of \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510705819922,"sku":"9781571315311","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6d376143-db6d-4dca-99c1-54bdb6773917.jpg?v=1730932365","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-the-jury-poems-9781571315311","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}