Description:
Armor & Ornament turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry. Miles' poems take less as their guide the modernists and postmodernists, preferring to call upon Biblical forms. These are Christian poems that have a deep and unapologetic understanding of God's world, and they explore, with steady faith, all sides of this world. Miles is also a veteran, and much of the poetry centers on war. Through tone and voice, warfare permeates these poems, providing poetry that relies less on the traditional, Christian tension of doubt and shaken faith than on the inherent tension of a broken world.
Brief description: Christopher Lee Miles grew up on a farm in southeastern Minnesota, served four years in the United States Navy, and obtained an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He lives and works in Fairbanks.