A Boy in the City is a masterful poetic sequence and a testament of the human spirit. It is written in the best of what is "the American grain."Philip Roth comes to mind, in his exhibition of tenderness as comic relief, when Michael Millers "boy" finds his grandmothers corset or when that same child touches his "right side," asking "God to keep/ My appendix whole," after he loses his mother, who wasnt "supposed to die/ From a ruptured appendix."More so, this sequence is also a significant homage and elegy to the Brooklyn Bridge, and is not dissimilar from Hart Cranes masterpiece, The Bridge.In Michael Millers poem, we traverse the span where we feel both the bridges reverberation and the poems sheer resonance "I stopped in the center/ Of the bridge, its cables/ The links of consistency/ Its curvature a graft/ Of the eternal." And as in Walt Whitmans work, Michael Millers poetry evinces both loss and healing. Wally Swist, author of Taking ResidencePoetry is an ocean into which all sorts of rivers enter, like boisterousguests. One of literatures obsessions is childhood. We all know Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield, the only real difference is their surroundings. They are intrigued by two things, the world and themselves, but they are fascinating because they think about and explore what we realize we should be doing.Michael Miller looks back, way back. He is experienced enough to know the world he writes about is gone, and then he brings it back to life. He is one of...

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