Under Cheaha To pay by check please use this order form. We are pleased to take orders from retailers. Email us with details about your order or call us at 207-837-5760. Cheaha is the name of the tallest mountain in Alabama. Under Cheaha is a collection of poems by William Miller about growing up in the deep south. The poet’s ancestors lived in the shadow of Mount Cheaha and were some of the original settlers of Alabama. These poems tie their past experiences to those of Miller as he comments on how those who came before him influenced his life and poetry. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-962080-53-2 (print; softcover; perfect bound)LCCN: Released November 11, 2025; Copyright 2025 82 pages |
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William Miller earned degrees at Eckerd College, Hollins College, and SUNY-Binghamton. He is the author of twelve books for children, eight collections of poetry, a mystery novel, and a critical reading. His poems, short stories, and scholarly articles have appeared in many journals, including The Penn Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner West Branch, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum and English Language Notes. He lives and writes in the French Quarter of New Orleans. |
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“William Miller is a documentarian of hardscrabble joy. In these poems, wives are given the family skillet to defend against a drunken husband and children discover they must be mother and father to ‘their own selves.’ But there is a ‘logic to nightmares.’ The hurt isn’t the point, but rather the making of loneliness from hell to home. In deceptively simple language, Miller exposes the poetics of frankness, arguing for earnestness in art. Like the description of his mother who checks the mirror only to assure herself that ‘she is still there,’ Miller is interested in his own experience insomuch as it lights the intersection to ours.” |
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