"In After Cocteau, Carolyn Miller reminds us that we are constantly sur¬rounded by the miraculous, and fills us 'with a sweet, deep nourishment.' In her poems of sensual celebration and penetrating hope, we are comforted by the voice of a mature poet equally talented in handling ekphrasis, the elegy, and the lyric, as well as narrative and persona poems. With seamless clarity and a painter's p…