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Praise for "Autobiomythography & Gallery"
"Joe Millar’s Autobiomythography & Gallery is the best
new book of poetry read by this reviewer this year. It is incredibly
strong. Millar does not feel the need to jab the reader with poetic points
or punch-lines; his poems thrive on ambiguity, intellect and the poignancy
of images we half-understand....This is great poetry." "This is a dense and wonderful collection. More than any other collection I’ve reviewed this year, I can see myself returning to Millar’s poems." "In his passionate response to Jonathan Franzen ("Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing...." Harper's), Ben Marcus outlines a new writer, one who is more concerned with tricking out his reader's Wernicke’s area—a part of the brain that processes language—than delivering anyone through a nifty but necessarily diminutive story. Marcus hails "writers who have pounded on the emotional possibilities of their mode," who "bend the habitual gestures around new shapes." I celebrate every time a book with Marcus' sensibilities rolls off the press. Joe Millar's first collection of poetry...is such a book. Millar's sense of language is striking—nearly perfect, in some poems. He seems to be after what might be called "the new get"—"get" as in "I don't get it." Autobiomythography is remarkable as a response to that frustrated quandary; spending just a few minutes with the book promotes the sense that there is, in fact, something important to understand there..."
You can buy the book on Amazon or order it from the Brooklyn Arts Press website.
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