Miller Williams
Miller Williams
Stanley Miller Williamswas an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He produced over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments were chronicled in Arkansas Biography. He is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. One of his best-known poems is "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 April 1930
CityHoxie, AR
CountryUnited States of America
I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them.