Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller
PBS Recommendation Summer 2018 Ishion Hutchinson Stepmother (Chatto & Windus)

Stepmother (Chatto & Windus)

Over all haunts the presence-in-absence of Sylvia Plath

have already gone too far

the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College and a 2015 Guggenheim award

the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves

Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller <br><b> PBS Recommendation Summer 2018 </b> Ishion Hutchinson Stepmother (Chatto & Windus)Is nowhere a place we can get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures. These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices, searching for the words version of musics home key. They dare you to visit, through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.