There Is an Anger That Moves

There Is an Anger That Moves

by Kei Miller
4/5
(87 votes)

Diverse in theme as well as form, this new collection explodes onto the page with a maturity and dynamism rarely seen in such a young poet.

Using language full of unique beauty and charisma, Miller writes everything from love poems to biblical chronicles, exploring themes such as conflicting identity, home and family, and the spirit of his Jamaican ancestors.

Format
96 pages, Paperback
First published
November 1, 2007
Publishers
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Subjects
Works by individual poets·From c 1900 ·Caribbean·Latin american·Poetry·Caribbean·Latin american·Poetry
Language
English

Great poetry! I'd want to give 4,5 stars if that were possible.

Delightful, spiritual, uplifting, intense, calm, cool, collective, flowing and deeply satisfying poetry. A wonderful read from start to finish.

A short and somewhat uneven collection of poems by Kei Miller, less focused on one idea than The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. Most of these poems I liked, some didn't say much to me.

Kei Miller

About Kei Miller

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Snow Monkey, Caribbean Beat and Obsydian III. His first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. His first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, was published in March 2006 by Heaventree Press; his second, There Is an Anger That Moves, was published by Carcanet in October 2007. He is also the editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow at Yaddo, and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow....

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