Part one. In the American funhouse -- Saturday morning -- Getting together -- If your birthday is today -- A plague of telephones -- Certain dreams -- Living with children -- I share -- Fish story -- A house of readers -- Skydivers -- Going south -- Part two. You must be born again -- Brier riddle -- No name -- Turn your radio on -- Chopping wood -- His hands -- Winter days -- Brier visions -- Going to sleep by a troutstream -- Down home -- Restoring an old farmhouse -- Light leaving -- He remembers his mother -- Bird in the house -- His three-legged dream -- Set apart -- On the wings of a dove -- Every leaf a mirror -- Born again -- The brier breathing -- Long view -- Part three. Brier sermon -- Harvest -- The brier losing touch with his traditions -- Shapes -- Abandoned -- How America came to the mountains -- He watches a televised senate hearing -- He sings ballads -- The brier reviewing novels -- Brier sermon : "You must be born again."
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Summary
Mountains Have Come Closer is a collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller was awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award for the book in 1980.
