The World That Isn’t There
The World That Isn’t There by Wil Mills is a posthumous collection of poems published by Measure Press, Incorporated in September 2017. This 100-page volume presents a blend of praise, satire, prophecy, and valediction, showcasing Mills’ formal control and grace. The poems explore a range of experiences, from everyday scenes to deeper reflections, inviting readers to engage with the complexities of existence.
Readers will find that the collection captures a unique kinship among the poems, infused with a sense of ache, despair, and hope. Through vivid imagery and thoughtful observations, Mills encourages an exploration of the relationship between the tangible world and the unseen. The themes of literary collections and American poetry resonate throughout, as the poems prompt contemplation on the nature of reality and perception.
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In The World That Isn’t There, Wil Mills’ luminous posthumous collection of poems, praise and satire, prophecy and valediction turn out to share a family resemblance. This kinship isn’t merely a matter of Mills’ flawless formal control and grace. Rather, the ache, the mingled despair and hope which inflect Mills’ reading of all experience from roadside restaurants to crosswalks to birds crashing into panes of glass, suffuse every poem here; and thus these poems enable us, Mills’ beneficiaries, “to read/the symbolled wonders signaled in the world” through the poet’s eyes. Which world — the world that isn’t there or the world that is? Perhaps, the poems suggest, the two worlds are finally one.
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