The Limits

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The poems in this extraordinary collection by Alice Miller call you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They are curious, restless, bold; they marry lyrical music and intricate metaphor as they search for other human voices beyond the rumblings of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of myth. From bare battlefields to crisp Antarctica to the gates of Troy, from re-written history to love story, these poems ask for something more from the world than just riding till the spoke breaks. A poet for whom one way's easy but an easy way's worse, Miller traces a path that leads beyond our limits - to where we set the sky on silent, where we're braver than science, and where we try to un-glimpse what we've lost.

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Alice Miller is a writer of poetry, plays, essays and fiction. She is the recipient of a CNZ Louis Johnson Bursary, the Landfall Essay Competition Prize, the Royal Society of NZ Manhire Prize, and the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Premier Award for fiction. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.