The phrase "a misery of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large quantity or overwhelming amount of misery or suffering, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "After the storm, the town was left with a misery of destruction and despair."
Alternatives: "a sea of misery" or "a mountain of sorrow."
It is a misery of dependence, immobility and hopelessness, not of grinding want.
He seems to have lived his last years in a misery of his own making.
This Christmas the impact of climate change reached across the Atlantic: developed and developing worlds were brought together in a misery of rising flood waters.
Even when she was a child, the spirits were about, making a misery of her life, seizing her schoolgirl hand and making her scrawl obscenities on her exam papers so she never passed.
Chairman Mao crisscrossed the countryside with tracks, partly for military use, but travel for ordinary people remained a misery of delayed, overcrowded trains nicknamed for the soot-stained color of the carriages: "green skins" were the slowest, "red skins" scarcely better.
With the exquisite irony of the torturer, the government did discontinue force-feeding – the label on the hammer did its job – only to replace it in 1913 with one of the nastiest of the hasty little laws passed to make a mock and a misery of women's protest: the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge of Ill Health) Act.
Since then, Cuomo's life has become a misery, much of it self-inflicted.
"The Subject Was Roses" is a portrait of well-meaning people trapped in a familiar misery of their own making.
This could be a story about water shutoffs and the misery of a city.
For at least a night, the Red Sox prevented the misery of an elimination repeat.
Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, devastated by an earthquake in October, is suffering the misery of a Himalayan winter.
