Groceries

by Nora Claire Miller

Groceries is a book about what to do about objects.

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>Debut full-length poetry book
>Winner of the Fonograf Open Genre Prize
>Foreward by Srikanth Reddy
>Coming out October 21 2025.

“Not since Tender Buttons has a book so thoroughly defamiliarized the world tout court.” 

“When reading Miller’s work: if it is at all possible to do or say anything new in poetry, this is probably where you’ll see it first. Groceries, their debut collection, is a perfect example.”

"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: □."

“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."

“Groceries is a fiercely playful, hilariously deadpan catalogue of “life on earth” among the stuff of supermarket capitalism—refrigerators, oatmeal, Ziploc, Microsoft Word, the floating coins of video games and day jobs. “There are places / where the ⎕ goes dead” it says, but Nora Claire Miller breaks our codes so the ⎕ can stay alive and full of possibility. A brilliant debut by a poet to watch.”