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MoonStain
Poetry by Ronda Miller
· Paperback: 110 pages
· Publisher: Meadowlark; 1 edition (May 17, 2015)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0692434666
· ISBN-13: 978-0692434666
“MoonStain describes the blood moon as it shines through
tree leaves, marking the long hours of sleepless night as it spreads from one
point to another on a young child’s bedroom floor,” says Ronda Miller of the
title poem of her collection.
Miller weaves stories of life, death, and love through her
poetry, primarily narrative in form. From glimpses of her childhood home on her
grandparents’ farm to images of a woman’s life, her loves, her losses, we learn
of life’s stains, of moments that shape and become a part of one woman’s voice.
The power of vulnerability is the motif that runs through
Ronda Miller’s excellent book of poetry, MoonStain. With the image of the
ever-changing moon defining each section of the book, Miller’s poetry deals
with the shifting emotional states that come with trauma and with survival and
rebirth.
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However, Miller doesn’t leave us in a state of despair. Her poem, “What my Mother Didn’t Teach me, I learned from the Prairie,” is a shout of affirmation that the land will give one a place, a sense of belonging.
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However, Miller doesn’t leave us in a state of despair. Her poem, “What my Mother Didn’t Teach me, I learned from the Prairie,” is a shout of affirmation that the land will give one a place, a sense of belonging.
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As Miller says in the poem, “poetry you have to,”
“…give it your all it wants for nothing
leaves you intact makes you complete”
MoonStain is a book of poetry that will make the reader complete. It is a life in all its joy and sadness, a life of searching and discovery.
“…give it your all it wants for nothing
leaves you intact makes you complete”
MoonStain is a book of poetry that will make the reader complete. It is a life in all its joy and sadness, a life of searching and discovery.
--Diane
D. Wahto
Ronda Miller is a Life Coach who works with clients who have
lost someone to homicide. She is a graduate of The University of Kansas and
continues to live in Lawrence. She is a Fellow of The Citizen Journalism
Academy, World Company, a Certified Life Coach with IPEC (Institute of
Professional Empowerment Coaching), mother of Scott and Apollonia. She created
poetic forms loku and ukol. She is the current Vice President for Kansas
Authors Club, District 2 President,
and served as Poetry Manager from 2011 to 2015.
Press:
Lawrence Magazine
Write about Trauma, an Aid in Healing, by Nancy Julian Kopp
Denise Low: Ronda Miller Publishes MoonStain
7 Books by Noteworthy Kansas Authors, University Daily Kansan
C.L. Wells, Interview with Ronda Miller
Lawrence Magazine
Write about Trauma, an Aid in Healing, by Nancy Julian Kopp
Denise Low: Ronda Miller Publishes MoonStain
7 Books by Noteworthy Kansas Authors, University Daily Kansan
C.L. Wells, Interview with Ronda Miller
