Hard Evidence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Heather Ross Miller
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Poetry or poets, Spiritual life or spirituality, Christianity
Until near the end of the twentieth poem (“Causing the Blind to See”) in her carefully ordered collection of dramatic and interior monologues, Heather Ross Miller withholds the words of her title: Hard Evidence. In all three of the named sections of her book, the poet dares the reader to see, and what she would have the reader see is not the appearance that normally passes for reality. In the final section’s title poem, the speaker says, “I command you: tell me,! do waked-up eyes recognize anything? Does the hard evidence! at first hand! live up to your promising land?”...
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