This week on The Bookshelf from NHPR , a conversation with Matt W. Miller about his new book, The Wounded for the Water . Daily life can be stressful. There's work, family, social obligations. Bills need to be paid, the dog needs to be walked. There are birthdays to remember, funerals to attend. For poet Matt W. Miller, these little and other big stressful moments add up to the sensation of drowning. In his new book, The Wounded for the Water , he explores this kind of metaphorical drowning in musical, resonant depictions of little moments we can all relate to. NHPR's Peter Biello spoke to Miller about his work in his classroom at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he teaches English. Matt W. Miller's Top Five (Plus One!) Reading Recommendations 1. Land with Sex and Violence by Lynn Melnick. "This collection of poems about sex working and sexual abuse and misogyny is lyrically stunning. It is an absolutely stunning and necessary book, a perfectly pitched mix language, rhythm, humor, pain,