“Marvelously subtle and self-aware examples of poetic meditation…poetry that raises primary issues.”
—Stephen Fredman, Modernism/Modernity
Stephen Paul Miller: There's Only One God and You're Not It

 

 “Stephen Paul Miller has written the most swingin’, rockin’, jazzy history of Judaism, Jews, and our favorite one and only God there is, that you will ever read. In verse. And if you read it you will have to think about it. While tapping your foot. And is it unbelievably funny to see this maniac of a poet wrestling with a disembod­ied spirit aided by Plato and Irving Berlin? That too. With Hitchcock and John Cage wagging the dog? Enter this book, you enter Indie Poetry.”—ALICIA OSTRIKER, author of No Heaven


“Stephen Paul Miller’s hilarious poem ‘There’s Only One God and You’re Not It’ [is] a rather unorthodox but wildly entertaining take on the history of Jew­ish theology and polytheism....Irreverence, rejection, and challenge to the tra­dition are as old as the tradition itself.”—JAKE MARMER, The Jewish Daily Forward


“Are Stephen Paul Miller’s playful lineated essays Midrashic form?”—THOM DONOVAN, Zeek


“In the riffs of his athletically speedy poem-essays, Stephen Paul Miller is hap­py to take the history of Judaism head-on as in “There Is Only One God and You Are Not It.” Think Lenny Bruce or Sarah Silverman. Poets like Miller, Daniel Morris, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman produce a new experi­mentalism and a Jewish secularism of their own.”
—DAVID KAUFMAN, Tablet


ISBN 978-0-9841177-8-9 $15.00

 

POSTSCRIPT TO EZRA’S TORAH
 
This relationship’s been hard to see. How
                            is it yes said no? Well,
               it did. It had to keep yes,
          and not only that, a
       way to say it too.
     How impossible. It took a
   lot of thought. More than this,
yes invented thinking to say no
  to everything it was hardwired against.
Love was in the crazy scorn of yes.