Shopkeeping by Peter Miller KNOPF defiance is met with death

defiance is met with death

vegetables

and the shimmering tail of a skyfish illuminating distant love

But some houses don’t want to be sold

nationhood

Shopkeeping by Peter Miller KNOPF defiance is met with deathThere is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailernot by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop. [from the Introduction] For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books,