Against the Simple
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“What continues to affect me in Robert Miltner’s Against the Simple is the silence that haunts the edges of experience and meaning. Like the lonely streetscapes of Giorgia De Chirico, Miltner’s poems, often cast in brief sentences surrounded by an eerie quiet, haunt us with the unseen and the unheard which seem to lurk just around the corners of language and consciousness. Often his images ‘tease us out of thought.’ In poems like ‘Eating Alone’ the uncanny strangeness is almost hallucinatory. ‘How true is the algebra of emptiness?’ House Noises at Night asks. These dreamingly attentive, watching and listening poems are kind of answer.” --Richard Hague
Robert Miltner
Robert Miltner was born in Cleveland and raised in Avon Lake, along Ohio�s North Coast. He has lived in these Ohio cities; Cincinnati, Steubenville, Lakewood, and now Canton. He has attended Xavier University for a B.A., John Carroll University for an M.Ed., and Kent State University for a Ph.D. He is associate professor of English at Kent State University at Stark where he teaches creative writing and literature. He is coordinator and on the poetry faculty of the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing Consortium Program (NEOMFA). He has been an active advocate for peace and justice. His poems, fiction, and essays have appeared widely in a variety of literary magazines, chapbooks, and journals. He is co-founder of the International Raymond Carver Society and edits The Raymond Carver Review.
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