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Woe & Awe
Lisa M. Miller
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you Lisa M. Miller's debut poetry collection, Woe & Awe. These poems draw us in with their timeless perspective and contemporary language and hold us with their fearless depth and beauty.
What Others Say About Woe & Awe
Throughout Woe & Awe, her debut poetry collection, Lisa M. Miller invokes the voices of female ancestors, physical and spiritual, who dare to suggest, "What if adversity has always been/essential?" Sustained by their spirit, Miller wrestles intergenerational and personal trauma in poems of vision, wit, and fierce clarity. Woe & Awe spans a lifetime, addressing personal crises, cultural history, and the Jewish diaspora. By the end of the volume we've seen the poet rendered whole, daughter and mother, deep in the joy of her own daughters, carrying her darkness and bearing the care of others who've been damaged. This is a shadowed book, never free of the certainty of suffering, but equally intent on embracing healing. Woe & Awe speaks back to shame. Whatever damage the past has done, "Leave it. Leave it again./The pulse of you depends/on a deliberate Yes." Woe & Awe is a brave book, a book we need now more than ever.
—Leatha Kendrick, Author of And Luckier
Lisa M. Miller's poetry grows on you in profundity with its lyricism and irony. Touching poems like, "I Come Home" intone humility and gratitude in the natural beauty of the woods. But what initially appears simple on the surface is filled with depth, honesty and insight. This book is for anyone who has suffered, is willing to probe, and is searching for hope.
—Rabbi Judith Edelstein, D. Min., Mussar Teacher
Lisa M. Miller reveals her courageous soul as she explores her journey of growth through life's tough experiences. But we are reminded that life's ups and downs are an essential part of this human experience as Lisa asks: "What if adversity has always been/essential/in a breathing life?" and, "Imagine / all your pains / are pearls really / on celestial string /" These poems remind us that everything we experience makes us who we are, and that woe and awe are close companions on the journey of life.
—Catherine Anderson, SoulCollage® and Veriditas Labyrinth Trainer
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What Spirit Suggests
Dear One,
What if you've come to heal
and begin again,
again?
What if adversity has always been
essential
in a breathing life?
Necessary?
Progress-ary?
When bowed in sorrow, come, put your back against a tree, look up.
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Details and Ordering
Publication Date: June 8, 2024
Format: Softcover, 6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-1-961127-08-1
Price: $19.00
About the Author
Lisa M. Miller is an inclusive mind-body health specialist and social justice advocate. She's passionate about the intersection of perennial wisdom teachings with modern therapeutic-arts and sciences in healing. Her workshops help women in every life-chapter to integrate physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. In this field for 25 years as an energy healer, and trained in clinical chaplaincy, Lisa works from the approach that health is much more than the "absence of disease" and serves a wide demographic through support groups and workshops in: SoulCollage®, Mussar, yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, mixed media art, and creative writing. In each context, humor and synchronicity cheer the deep work of healing and thriving. At the time of publication, Lisa is a first year MFA student in the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. An empty nester living in Kentucky, she feels really lucky to be married to her 1986 summer camp sweetheart.
Lisa's other books include: The Heart of Leadership for Women: Cultivating a Sacred Space (2020), and Girls Rock! Just the Way We Are: Wise Teens Offer Tweens & Moms Advice on Healthy Body Image, Self-Esteem & Empowerment (Editor, 2005)
Lisa's limited series podcast and former radio show at Lexington Community Radio are called: The Women's Well: Nourish Your Health and Spirit.
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