Any Lie You Tell Will Be the Truth

Poetry. "’Isn’t intimacy the thin ice / of address?,’ asks Stephen Miller’s endlessly jaunty and energetic narrator. And he adds, ’I mean if we become one another.’ Throughout this irrepressible series of imaginative intimacies and confrontations (with John Cage, with Frank O’Hara, with Taylor Mead, and dozens of other art personalities we love to read about), Miller never loses his cool, his ability to see contemporary issues and dilemmas from all angles and survive to laugh about them. A delightful book, full of what Wallace Stevens called ’the pleasures of merely circulating.’"—Marjorie Perloff