Background
Anesa Miller was born on June 8, 1954 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. She is the daughter of Malcolm and Ruth (Warnock) Miller.
(A Road Beyond Loss is subtitled "Three Cycles of Poems & ...)
A Road Beyond Loss is subtitled "Three Cycles of Poems & an Epilogue." The book presents a journey into the depths of grief--specifically, the loss of a beloved child--through the pain of failed love, and out the other side into healing and a life renewed. Derived from personal experience, these poems offer an intimate view of emotional upheaval, as well as survivorship.
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1995
(Re- Entering the Sign brings together an array of perspec...)
Re- Entering the Sign brings together an array of perspectives from contemporary Russian scholars and artists on the radical cultural changes that have accompanied the collapse of familiar social, political, and economic structures in the former Soviet Union. The essays and artistic manifestoes offer a variety of responses to the intense cultural questioning that resulted from a remarkable historical period as former Soviet society reentered both its own historical conversations as well as larger global discussions about culture. The collection was conceived at an international conference on language and the arts, "Language, Consciousness, and Society," whose organizers aimed to initiate dialogue within an international community of scholars and artists, to open a public arena for the confluence of new voices, including native voices long denied open access to the public sphere in their own country. The concerns raised in these essays continue to provoke debate in contemporary Russian culture. Russian luminaries include Mikhail Epstein and Arcady Dragomoshchenko on topics such as Russian postmodernism, the state of contemporary artistic culture, comparisons of Soviet literature with new Russian literature, and underground cinema. The book will appeal to students and scholars of comparative literature and film, to cultural critics interested in cross- and trans-cultural approaches, and to theorists of the contemporary avant-garde. Ellen E. Berry is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University, and author of Curved Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude Stein's Postmodernism. Anesa Miller-Pogacar is Assistant Professor of Russian, Bowling Green State University. Re- Entering the Sign brings together an array of perspectives from contemporary Russian scholars and artists on the radical cultural changes that have accompanied the collapse of familiar social, political, and economic structures in the former Soviet Union. The essays and artistic manifestoes offer a variety of responses to the intense cultural questioning that resulted from a remarkable historical period as former Soviet society reentered both its own historical conversations as well as larger global discussions about culture. The collection was conceived at an international conference on language and the arts, "Language, Consciousness, and Society," whose organizers aimed to initiate dialogue within an international community of scholars and artists, to open a public arena for the confluence of new voices, including native voices long denied open access to the public sphere in their own country. The concerns raised in these essays continue to provoke debate in contemporary Russian culture. Russian luminaries include Mikhail Epstein and Arcady Dragomoshchenko on topics such as Russian postmodernism, the state of contemporary artistic culture, comparisons of Soviet literature with new Russian literature, and underground cinema. The book will appeal to students and scholars of comparative literature and film, to cultural critics interested in cross- and trans-cultural approaches, and to theorists of the contemporary avant-garde. Ellen E. Berry is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University, and author of Curved Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude Stein's Postmodernism. Anesa Miller-Pogacar is Assistant Professor of Russian, Bowling Green State University.
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1995
(A summer of brilliant flowers and perfect weather. Girls ...)
A summer of brilliant flowers and perfect weather. Girls dancing on a moonlit field. A cold house overgrown with abandoned gardens. These images come together in Anesa Miller’s To Boldly Go, which explores the “turning years” of our new century from both a personal and a universal perspective. The author reveals the intimate pains of anger and loss at the death of her estranged father, but looks beyond emotional damages toward the wider horizon of environmental issues, runaway technology, and the implications of 9/11. This journey toward healing and hope traverses the landscape of memory with an eye for a better future. "These are provocative and eloquent essays, fierce meditations on our human capacities and frailties, the nature of memory, acts of forgiveness. Anesa Miller summons our better angels and makes firm reckonings with the devil, casting it away. A stunning collection." - Tiffany Midge, author of The Woman Who Married a Bear (Salt Publishing) and Outlaws, Renegades and Saints; Diary of a Mixed-up Halfbreed (Greenfield Review Press) "The world is blessed to have creative souls who write out of a need to make sense of what we experience when senseless things happen. Anesa is one of those people. …These essays reflect the healing of a fine poetic mind. They explore the inner life of an exceptional artist, intertwined with the history of our times, the lives of her family and friends, some of whom brought her joy, some misery. …Her moving thoughts come as a revelation…" - From the Foreword by Jaak Panksepp, author of The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (W. W. Norton & Company).
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2013
Anesa Miller was born on June 8, 1954 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. She is the daughter of Malcolm and Ruth (Warnock) Miller.
As a child, Anesa Miller resisted schooling and had to be pushed to keep up with her classmates. On a car trip across the Great Plains, her mother threatened that there would be no lunch until Anesa read several pages aloud from A Is for Annabelle. Under pressure, the seven-year-old buckled down, focused on the page, and gained a sudden insight into the link between letters, sound, and meaning. A passion for reading and love of literature were born.
Miller graduated Occidental College with a Bachelor's degree in 1976. She also attended the University of Kansas, where she received her Master of Arts degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.
Miller started her career as an instructor in Russian language and literature at the University of Kansas in 1979. In 1986, she went to Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she held the same position and was also an associate professor till 1994. During that time Miller also translated scholarly essays, edited books, and taught at elementary schools.
Since 1994, Anesa Miller works as a full-time freelance writer.
(Re- Entering the Sign brings together an array of perspec...)
1995(A Road Beyond Loss is subtitled "Three Cycles of Poems & ...)
1995(A summer of brilliant flowers and perfect weather. Girls ...)
2013Married to the neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, Anesa divides her time between northwest Ohio and Moscow, Idaho. The couple have three grown children.