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Pub Date Oct 21 2025 | Archive Date Not set

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Chosen by Srikanth Reddy as the winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, Groceries is a book-length poem about objects and their necessary absurdity.

The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. Not where to put them exactly, but how to print them out from the sky so they get sucked back down to earth. How to tell a noun from a category of noun, an image from a category of image. Cereal from USB ports. Motorcycles from escalators. Grapevines from hair elastics. They’re more similar than you’d think.


Nora Claire Miller is a poet. Their first book Groceries was the winner of the Fonograf Editions Open Genre Contest, selected by Srikanth Reddy, and is forthcoming in fall 2025. Nora's work has recently appeared in The Paris Review, FENCE, and Chicago Review. Nora is based in Western Massachusetts, where they're the editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal. They have an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from Hampshire College.

Chosen by Srikanth Reddy as the winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, Groceries is a book-length poem about objects and their necessary absurdity.

The winner of the 2023...


Advance Praise

"Form is a word that’s preoccupied poets since time immemorial. The shapes that proliferate throughout Miller’s Groceries make form new. Not only literary form, but that, too."
—Srikanth Reddy

"Buckle up, earthlings!!! Nora Claire Miller is taking your data body to the Coral Ridge mall via deep space. They want to show you its habitat. They want you to stare into the compound eye of the machine we pay to watch us. Hey scantron crucible, hey wheel of fortune! Hey paper world, these words are scratched into the cloud that’s been messing with your head. Oh no! has been talking things over with Oh yes! Groceries is a breathtaking debut."
—Elizabeth Willis

"A book is a box with emptiness in it: □. This is a book. An author is university with rain inside it. This book is written by Nora Claire Miller. Who is Nora Claire Miller? ‘my name is nonce, my name is nobody, who the hell are you.’ That’s what they say in the book they wrote, which is called Groceries. Groceries is a book with emptiness in it, empty boxes, universities, rain, human beings. They look like this: □□□□□. Who the hell am I, Nora Claire Miller asks me. I am a character that my phone cannot recognize: □. There is a book here called Groceries and Nora Claire Miller is its author. Its reader is an empty box, a university, a curtain of rain, a human being. If you are one or more of those things, please check the box: □." 
—Toby Altman

"Form is a word that’s preoccupied poets since time immemorial. The shapes that proliferate throughout Miller’s Groceries make form new. Not only literary form, but that, too."
—Srikanth Reddy

"Buckle...


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ISBN 9781964499543
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PAGES 94

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