THE SOLITUDE OF MEMORY is Michael Miller's 12th collection of poems. As a young man, Miller followed in his family's belief in the importance of serving one's country and became a Marine, where he was faced with the cruelty of war. Now, at age eighty, Miller focuses this new volume on three themes that permeate his poetry as an older man--love, blindness, and war. A life-long poet, his work continues to reflect a sensibility that values tenderness and love. Poetry.