“History cannot be written down in a straight line.”
“These taut, image-dense poems provide a kind of time-lapse record of Bermuda's history, showing how ‘an entire empire hangs in the chintz curtain.’ Everyday life in Bermuda and beyond is evoked by a set of tensions – between the culture of taste, class, and propriety and the history of race, caste, and violence; between the sense of prized uniqueness and dulling isolation; between a sense of remoteness from the world and the exemplariness of the island-as-world. Nancy Ann Miller's photographer's eye links the silver tea service on the mahogany table to bucolic English village life, bustling American highways, and the sights, smells, and sounds of the Caribbean archipelago.” Simon Lewis