The missing mountain : new and selected poems / Michael Collier.
2021
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Title
The missing mountain : new and selected poems / Michael Collier.
ISBN
9780226795256 (paperback)
022679525X (paperback)
022679525X (paperback)
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm.
Exhibited
2020-2021 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1221017952
Summary
""The Missing Mountain"describes a long, distinguished career as both a poet and teacher. It highlights all the things that we've come to depend on in Michael Collier's poetry: his wide range of reference, his ability to formulate surprising connections, and his depth of intelligence and emotion. Where most contemporary poets look for the metaphorical in the literal, Collier does the opposite: he takes a hard look at "how things actually are," giving readers a crystal clear view of his observations, from fraught relations between family members and between lovers, to pedophilic priests and the ethics of beekeeping, to explorations in the densest of forests, ruminations into the most forbidding of deserts, and down to the terrors of the bottom of the ocean. In the section of new poems, Collier turns to the other animals who share our planet. Here we find an array of recognizable characters: an irascible stray cat with an unlikely dependent, an opossum; an imperious-if clueless-dog; a sage, world-weary goat; and the touching domesticity of bluebirds. So much could we learn from our fellow creatures, if we tried; and, after all the centuries of human consumption, how little we've actually learned from each other:"If they would stay just where they are all morning," Collier writes of some industrious crows he chances upon in a clearing, "they'd be the monument to the history they're looking for." This new and selected poems represents the best of what Phoenix Poets has strived for over the years: nonconformity to prevailing trends in literary culture, a poetry attuned to a world external to the self and shared with others, in language that tries to engage the full range of our faculties and sensibilities, bringing the widest range of consciousness to bear upon the widest range of experience"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
From My bishop and other poems (2018). Meadow ; My bishop ; Anecdote of the piano in the woods ; Bronze foot in a glass case ; The storm ; Boom boom ; A wild tom turkey ; Len Bias, a bouquet of roses, and Ms. Brooks ; Last morning with Steve Orlen
From An individual history (2011). An individual history ; My mother of invention ; Grandmother with mink stole, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona, 1959 ; Cyclops ; At the end of a ninetieth summer ; Brendan's hair ; Piety ; Doctor friendly ; History ; Rabid head ; The bees of Deir Kifa ; Embrace ; Laelaps ; Six lines for Louise Vogan
From Dark wild realm (2006). Birds appearing in a dream ; Confessional ; Summer anniversary ; Bird crashing into window ; The watch ; The missing mountain ; Singing, 5 a.m. ; Mine own John Clare ; Elegy for a long-dead friend ; A line from Robert Desnos used to commemorate George "Sonny" Took-the-Shield, Fort Belknap, Montana ; Bardo
From The ledge (2000). Argos ; My crucifixion ; The word ; The farrier ; Ghazal
All souls ; Brave sparrow ; Pay-per-view ; Cerberus ; Pax geologica
From The neighbor (1995). Archimedes ; 2212 West Flower Street ; The house of being ; The barber ; The rancher ; Mission Boulevard ; The steam engine ; Pictures drawn by atomic bomb survivors ; Letter from Mrs. C. G. Vogt ; The water dream
From The folded heart (1989). North corridor ; Spider tumor ; Burial ; The problem ; The heavy light of shifting stars ; Feedback ; The cave
From The clasp (1986). Aquarium ; White strawberries ; In Khabarovsk ; Bruges ; Two girls in a chair ; The clasp
New poems (2021). A man of rueful countenance ; A true story about a cat and a possum ; Bee to keeper ; Portrait of two young couples ; Colloquy with a Polish aunt ; The salvation of America ; Goat on a pile of scrap lumber ; Cyclist braking for two foxes crossing a country road in early morning ; Morning crows in a fresh mown field before rain ; His Highness's dog at Lew ; Penn relays ; Winter ; Our Felix Randal ; In life ; Bluebirds ; Poem for a sixtieth birthday ; Today I can write ; To the muse of dying ; Tree beyond your window.
From An individual history (2011). An individual history ; My mother of invention ; Grandmother with mink stole, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona, 1959 ; Cyclops ; At the end of a ninetieth summer ; Brendan's hair ; Piety ; Doctor friendly ; History ; Rabid head ; The bees of Deir Kifa ; Embrace ; Laelaps ; Six lines for Louise Vogan
From Dark wild realm (2006). Birds appearing in a dream ; Confessional ; Summer anniversary ; Bird crashing into window ; The watch ; The missing mountain ; Singing, 5 a.m. ; Mine own John Clare ; Elegy for a long-dead friend ; A line from Robert Desnos used to commemorate George "Sonny" Took-the-Shield, Fort Belknap, Montana ; Bardo
From The ledge (2000). Argos ; My crucifixion ; The word ; The farrier ; Ghazal
All souls ; Brave sparrow ; Pay-per-view ; Cerberus ; Pax geologica
From The neighbor (1995). Archimedes ; 2212 West Flower Street ; The house of being ; The barber ; The rancher ; Mission Boulevard ; The steam engine ; Pictures drawn by atomic bomb survivors ; Letter from Mrs. C. G. Vogt ; The water dream
From The folded heart (1989). North corridor ; Spider tumor ; Burial ; The problem ; The heavy light of shifting stars ; Feedback ; The cave
From The clasp (1986). Aquarium ; White strawberries ; In Khabarovsk ; Bruges ; Two girls in a chair ; The clasp
New poems (2021). A man of rueful countenance ; A true story about a cat and a possum ; Bee to keeper ; Portrait of two young couples ; Colloquy with a Polish aunt ; The salvation of America ; Goat on a pile of scrap lumber ; Cyclist braking for two foxes crossing a country road in early morning ; Morning crows in a fresh mown field before rain ; His Highness's dog at Lew ; Penn relays ; Winter ; Our Felix Randal ; In life ; Bluebirds ; Poem for a sixtieth birthday ; Today I can write ; To the muse of dying ; Tree beyond your window.
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Phoenix poets.
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