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Bradbury</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> In <I>Four Autumns</I>, his first full collection of poetry, Gregory Miller provides a fascinating series of insights into four different arenas of the human condition, all mirrored through the season of greatest transition: Autumn.  As the leaves change on the trees, beautifying the world through their final acts, Autumn culls up fond memories and present anxieties, stinging loss and clarity of vision.  These poems, a mosaic of experience, do likewise.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Gregory Miller's first novel, <I>Big Cicadas,</I> was published in 2003.  His work has appeared in a number of national publications, including <I>Distant Echoes, Rosebud,</I> and the anthology <I>In The Arms of Words.</I>  His first chapbook of poetry, <I>Snow and Sand,</I> was printed by FootHills Publishing in 2003.  In 2004 he served as a consultant on Houghton Mifflin's <I>The Lord of the Rings</I> online curriculum guide.  He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Vera, where he teaches high school English. </div> <bR> <div> CONTENTS</div> <bR> <div> I     </div> <bR> <div> What We Want Now     </div> <div> The Campfire     </div> <div> Back Again     </div> <div> Home     </div> <div> Seventeen and Sunday     </div> <div> Old Journals     </div> <div> Electric Lights     </div> <bR> <div> II     </div> <bR> <div> Between Storms     </div> <div> The Shelf     </div> <div> Seasons Sown     </div> <div> Wake-up     </div> <div> Outside     </div> <div> A Sudden Change of Pace     </div> <div> You Should Know Better     </div> <div> Night Worries     </div> <div> …Day In, Day…     </div> <div> A Wish     </div> <div> The Wind     </div> <bR> <div> III     </div> <bR> <div> Evening Tide     </div> <div> The Harvest     </div> <div> She is 90     </div> <div> University Art     </div> <div> The Shade     </div> <div> Family Photos     </div> <div> Reunion     </div> <div> Graduation Day     </div> <div> Routine Waves     </div> <div> The Red Satchel     </div> <div> First Frost     </div> <div> Out     </div> <div> The Visit     </div> <bR> <div> IV     </div> <bR> <div> The Book Sale     </div> <div> Old Pages     </div> <div> Have Another     </div> <div> Parade Day     </div> <div> The Apple Tree     </div> <div> In Armstrong County     </div> <div> 1946     </div> <div> Above Town     </div> <div> Grandpa's Shirts     </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Home</B></div> <bR> <div> Where Fall is always </div> <div> gentle with welcome</div> <div> gusting winds blowing</div> <div> kaleidoscope leaves</div> <div> down in rainbow</div> <div> rain.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Grandpa's Shirts</B></div> <bR> <div> From pine drawer Grandpa's shirts emerge,</div> <div> Twenty years lost, smelling of mothballs,</div> <div> Treasures found during Grandma's Spring Cleaning.</div> <div> She takes them out slow, no doubt sensing </div> <div> Possibility in perfect folds, starch, collars pressed -</div> <div> Burdens of loss unburied, sorrow dusted off,</div> <div> Yet a chance to pass on what was once her pride,</div> <div> To reforge fragments of old life for new.</div> <bR> <div> "Do you want these?" she asks.  "I doubt they'll fit."</div> <bR> <div> I sit, try one on, starch crackling out creases, </div> <div> Certain sleeves will hang down below hands,</div> <div> Tails sway below knees - a blanket, a tent,</div> <div> A billowing shirt-shaped robe.</div> <div> Great sands of years made Grandpa giant:</div> <div> Huge hands, broad shoulders, he filled all rooms</div> <div> With the nature of my awe,</div> <div> The stature of my love.</div> <bR> <div> But now shoulders stretch cloth,</div> <div> Elbows strain seams, neck nape</div> <div> Bulges beneath collar buttons pulled taut,</div> <div> Two decades of growth confined and</div> <div> Fighting against the limits of stationary linen.</div> <div> "I didn't think so," Grandma says, face pale.</div> <div> "Goodwill tomorrow - They'll have to go."</div> <bR> <div> "No," I say, surprising her and me.</div> <div> They're still too big, these shirts too small.</div> <div> I take them all.</div> <div> "Someday I'll grow." I shut the drawer.</div> <div> "Some day they'll fit."  We shut the door.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> ISBN:  0-941053-80-6</div> <bR> <div> <I>Four Autumns</I></div> <div> is a 68 page hand-sewn paper book with spine - $15.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.foothillspublishing.com/springfed/id135.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.foothillspublishing.com/sprin"><U>(Click to see Greg Miller's Other FootHills Release,</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.foothillspublishing.com/springfed/id135.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.foothillspublishing.com/sprin"><U>Springfed Chapbook #20 - "Snow and Sand")</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Four Autumns"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="05-21"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="15.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>