Selected Poems

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Selected Poems of Bermudian poet </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nancy Anne Miller</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> traces the decades she has been writing about her homeland with the use of image metaphor as her primary tool for revealing Bermuda's complexities. Her choice of this technique is to consciously break apart linear intentional thinking or the masculine sentence as Woolf referenced.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For Miller the use of image metaphor allows a poem's meaning to radiate across the entire poem as one thing is reflected through another in a circular movement hence preventing one final climatic interpretation. She states: The island's history cannot be written down in a straight line - and sees this as a female-voiced way of being a poet one that is inclusive layered and exploratory.</span></p>