Lines from a Canvas Philosophy and Aesthetics

Lines from a Canvas Philosophy and AestheticsLines from a Canvas offers the public one of the best kept secrets in the world of poetry for years, the work of Jacob Miller. His poems uniquely traverse the cultural territory from Homer to the Grateful Dead, taking the reader from ancient Greece and Rome to the Holocaust to the Cold War to Vietnam to 9 11. In short, the expansive canvas of his content presents a compelling spectrum mixing classical and modern brush strokes, all while exploring

sits in the office

and dabbling in espionage

I've predicted that in thirty years time

even editorial cartoons—has infected a generation of artists

her husband

the "Cavemen

it was nominated for the 1990 National Book Award

at collection

and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award

published in Paris in 1930

This text embodies the act of questioning in a way that is at once startling and affirming

he chose to think of the work as an extended monologue whose structure derives from the musical rondo form