The Edges of Heaven

Ted Miller has written over 600 poems many of which have been published along the eastern seaboard. While attending St. Alban's School he studied under James Hoch and Curtis Sittenfeld. He cites Robert Lowell Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Booth as influences. Miller's poetry is confessional geographic and natural in orientation.</p><p>Miller's poetry shows how the outward surroundings of nature relate to every man's quest for meaning; our interiority is under continual renewal and renegotiation. The sea's patterns are the heart's patterns. Additionally many poems from this volume are love poems. Miller depicts love as a layered and multi-faceted entity. Love is both a kind of energy and a source of peace. Love intersects where expectation hits reality between perception and realization. Lastly this volume is a meditation on the human ability and inability to communicate. Genuine love is only possible throughcommunication; genuine communication is only possible through love.</p>