Borderline Fortune

Advance praise for Borderline Fortune:

Winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Carol Muske-Dukes

"Teresa K. Miller explores startling territories in Borderline Fortune. She addresses the lines we've drawn and erased for centuries on the earth - that conform to the borders we cross and uncross in the mind. Yet: "I'm asking you to believe in what you've never seen or heard", she writes, refusing the mind's limits. Conscious bad patterns of cognition, even "borderline personality" remain hinted at, but as a kind of wrong-minded fortune telling. Here is the dark power of climate change where she finds the future "all danger, heat, & scarcity." Blake, Dickinson and Hopkins' Terrible Sonnets hover: ("birds build/but not I build"), above trees cut down and hope with feathers. The damage done to the earth echoes the damages to the protean mind of the poet--but Miller remains radiantly elusive, an escape artist in these marvelous poems of altered terra firma and revelation."--Carol Muske Dukes

Praise for Miller's previous collection, sped:

"Weaving these individual threads into a single plait, Miller's form highlights her expansive entanglements, as well as her singular focused journey through mourning . . . What a gripping debut." --Los Angeles Review of Books

"In sped's last units, when many of the themes of the book begin to be drawn together, you learn that you have absorbed the fragments and made them whole inside you without fully knowing it." --Tarpaulin Sky