<DIV></DIV><I></I><B>The new book by Leslie Adrienne Miller, whose poems “are delightfully eclectic, learned and wise” </B><B>(Ted Kooser)<BR></B><BR><I>If the face is a christening in flesh,<BR></I><I>the boy of him is its opposite,<BR></I><I>raising the tent of bones in which<BR></I><I>he will harbor all the starry anomalies<BR></I><I>that a knowledge of God cannot undo</I>.<BR> —from “Y”<BR><BR><I>Y </I>is poet Leslie Adrienne Miller’s book of the looming child, the son, the cipher, the letter for which a math problem seeks a solution. Collaging lyric investigation, personal reflection, and hard research into psychology and childhood development, Miller describes motherhood with a broad-ranging intelligence, a fierce humor, and an elegant, emotive poetic line.</P> </P>