Armor & Ornament turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry. Miles’ poems take less as their guide the modernists and postmodernists, preferring to call upon Biblical forms. These are Christian poems that have a deep and unapologetic understanding of God’s world, and they explore, with steady faith, all sides of this world. Miles is also a veteran, and much of the poetry centers on war. Through tone and voice, warfare permeates these poems, providing poetry that relies less on the traditional, Christian tension of doubt and shaken faith than on the inherent tension of a broken world.