On “Wide Open Spaces”
Review of Kathryn Miller, “Wide Open Spaces,” from The Best of Brevity, edited by Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore, 29-30 . Brookline, MA: Rose Metal Press, 2020. Kathryn Miller’s “Wide Open Spaces” from The Best of Brevity possesses little of the beauty we typically associate with such a phrase. I think of the West, the Chicks, (formerly the Dixie Chicks), and empty highways, not scars and bullets. Miller’s short essay recounts her visit to police station to view the…