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Hear Cynthia Cruz, Benjamin Miller, and Gregory Pardlo Read at First Republic Bank in NYC TONIGHT September 30

Tonight, Tuesday, September 30, at 7 pm, Cynthia Cruz (Wunderkammer), Benjamin Miller (Without Compass), and Gregory Pardlo (Digest) will be reading for the Verdi Square Festival of the Arts Poetry Reading at First Republic Bank (2160 Broadway at 76th Street) in NYC. 

Wunderkammer, Without Compass, and Digest are all available from Four Way Books. 

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Cynthia Cruz, Benjamin Miller, and Gregory Pardlo Reading Tomorrow 9/30 in NYC

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 30, at 7 pm, Cynthia Cruz (Wunderkammer), Benjamin Miller (Without Compass), and Gregory Pardlo (Digest) will read for the Verdi Square Festival of the Arts Poetry Reading at First Republic Bank (2160 Broadway at 76th Street) in NYC. Visit this link to register in advance. Admittance is free.

Wunderkammer, Without Compass, and Digest are all available from Four Way Books. 

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Hear Benjamin Miller Read TONIGHT Wednesday 9/17 in NYC

Tonight, Wednesday, September 17, at 6 pm, Benjamin Miller (Without Compass) will read with Colette Inez and Barbara Truncellito for the Perfect Sense Reading Series at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street) in NYC, hosted by Alissa Heyman. Admission is $8, one drink included. 

Without Compass is available from Four Way Books. 

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Benjamin Miller Reading TOMORROW Wednesday September 17 @ Cornelia Street Cafe

Benjamin Miller (Without Compass) will be reading with Colette Inez and Barbara Truncellito for the Perfect Sense Reading Series at Cornelia Street Cafe tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17, at 6 pm. The reading will be hosted by Alissa Heyman. There will be an admission fee of $8 which will include a free drink. 

Without Compass is available from Four Way Books. 

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Review of "Without Compass" by Benjamin Miller in "Publishers Weekly"

"Through delicately woven motifs, the poems in Miller's debut collection echo and build off one another cohering in central themes of navigation and orientation (and its inverse, disorientation)." Read the full review here.

Without Compass is available from Four Way Books.

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Meet the Spring Authors: Benjamin Miller, Author of "Without Compass"

Benjamin Miller has studied at Harvard, Columbia, and the CUNY Graduate Center, and has taught writing at Columbia and Hunter College. His poems have appeared in RHINO, Pleiades, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; Without Compass is his first book. For more about Ben, visit majoringinmeta.net.

Without Compass is available from Four Way Books.

In this debut collection of lyric poems, self-doubt becomes sacrificial offering. Through recurring dreams of grandeur, self-sabotage, and defeat, Benjamin Miller’s collection Without Compass explores the desert margins between faith and emptiness, between “desire and its counterfeits.” Carved down, elliptical, the poems seek “the perfect flaw” with which to “cruel you to thought.” From behind the “veil and doubt” of the lyric voice, they lead us in pursuit of the possibility of belief.

Praise for Without Compass

"In these imagistic, shimmering, often enigmatic poems, Benjamin Miller meditates on the ways love and mourning both empty and purify us. Here, figures from the Bible express their fears whisperingly into our ears, and images--a folded bit of paper, blinking lights reflected on an airport window--are described with electric clarity. Seen through a car window, a fence becomes a zoetrope that 'speed has all but made transparent, / the empty space revealed beyond: a flipbook life' and the landscape outside a tent is 'the desert, / and outside the desert, sand.' Benjamin Miller's work is nuanced, discomforting, and filled with a fascinating spiritual awe. This is a very fine and thoughtful book."

- Kevin Prufer

"Both as it saunters with the prophet's stride and traipses with the acolyte's hurry-up, Ben Miller's precise debut is a work of forceful imagination and elegant verve--a masterstroke of approach and echolocation. These deft, Escher-like poems appear like magical tricks, yet there's no gimmick to their studied resonance. As he reveals the significance of transitional spaces--borders, twilight, doubt--Miller shows us how we might think, if not more clearly about our lives, then more fully."

- Lytton Smith

"Much like Louise Glück, Miller creates a calculus of ordinary life 'riden by static,' absorbed by the 'echolalia' of glances, interviews, communion with nature, with presence, with the self. And from this rigorous attention to dailyness, he charts--without compass, without North Star--intensities of surprise, unexpected visits, encounters, attempts at speech. These gorgeous, painful poems map the unpredictable weather of the psyche: torrential, scorching, cold or calm. We would be lost without them."

- Tom Healy

Visit our events page regularly to see if Benjamin Miller is reading near you. 

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Join us tomorrow at the NYU Main Bookstore (726 Broadway (near Waverly)) for a Four Way Books and friends reading. Without Compass and A Hotel in Belgium are available from Four Way Books.