This commentary appears in the Winter–Spring 2013 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   Wilmer Hastings Mills died at the age of forty-one on his family’s farm in Zachary, Louisiana, July 25, 2011, after a brief battle with cancer of the liver. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn Oliver Mills, … Continue reading Singing the Pieces Back in Place:[br] The Life and Verse of Wilmer Hastings Mills[br] (1969–2011)