News Release
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March 16, 2005
Ahsahta Press Announces Publication Of 'Oriflamme' By Sandra
Miller
Ahsahta Press is pleased to announce the publication of
�Oriflamme,� a collection of
poetry by Sandra Miller of Iowa City, Iowa.
Among Miller�s influences are the Russian avant-garde artists of the turn of
the 20th century. Her poems are as sculptural as the page permits, written
in �packets� rather than stanzas that move visually as well as narratively
throughout the work.
�Delicate and sure, spare and very, very precise,� is how Cole Swensen
describes
Miller�s poems. �They haunt. They break your heart. They make you want to
live. �Oriflamme� marks a new direction in American poetry. No one else is
doing anything like it, yet.�
Miller was born in Virginia and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in
women�s studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received a
master�s in early cinema from the University of Chicago and a Master of Fine
Arts in poetry from the Iowa Writers� Workshop. Her poems and criticism have
been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and she was
featured as an emerging writer in the Academy of American Poets� publication
�American Poet� in 2004. She is the recipient of the Paul Engle�James
Michener Fellowship for 2004�2005.
�Oriflamme� is the 68th book from Ahsahta Press. Ahsahta, which is Mandan
for �Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep,� has produced volumes by poets such as
Graham Foust, Linda Dyer, Noah Eli Gordon, Dan Beachy-Quick, Lisa Fishman,
Lance Phillips, Heather Sellers, Sandra Alcosser, David Baker, Linda Bierds
and Wyn Cooper.
The books are available from the Boise State University Bookstore; Small
Press Distribution in Berkeley, Calif.; and from Ahsahta�s Web site at
http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu
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�Oriflamme� by Sandra Miller
ISBN 0-916272-83-4
Pages: 92
Trim: 9� x 9�
Price: $16
Contact: Janet Holmes, Ahsahta Press director, (208) 426-2195,
jholmes@boisestate.edu
Media contact: Julie Hahn, University Relations, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
Online: http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu.
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Last reviewed on Thursday, December 22, 2005