About The Must-Be-Admired Things: Collected Poems & Translations:

The Must-Be-Admired-Things is a collection of four previously published poetry books by Gary Miranda. The collection includes Listeners at the Breathing Place, which won the Princeton Contemporary Poetry competition, Grace Period, Turning Sixty, and a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies.

Gary’s son, Nicolas will provide live music before and after.

Author Bio:

Gary has taught writing and literature as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Athens, Greece, and as poet-in-residence at Reed College. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Northwest Review and elsewhere. His first book, Listeners at the Breathing Place, won the Princeton Contemporary Poetry Competition. His collected works include his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies.

His awards for poetry include an NEA Fellowship, nine awards from the Poetry Society of America, and an invitation by The Atlantic Monthly to serve as poet-in-residence at the Robert Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire.  Gary’s poems have been taped for inclusion in Harvard University’s Lamont Poetry Collection and in the Library of Congress Poetry Archive.

Gary received the 2023 Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award presented by Oregon Literary Arts “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon's literary community.”

“Miranda’s best is breathtaking. Beyond the words, whatever is light…Certainly we can want no better.” —Michael Heffernan, Poetry

“Throw away all your other translations of the Duino Elegies and get this one.” —Robin Skelton, The Malahat Review