Michael Collier

An Individual History: Poems (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Profound, emotional, sparing, loving, and sometimes very funny. . . . [Collier is] always the consummate craftsman.Poet Lore

An Individual History describes the fears, anger, and guiltpersonal, familial, societal, political, and historicalthat comprise a life. The figure of the speaker's maternal grandmother who was institutionalized for five decades serves as an overriding metaphor for this haunting, bold new work by an essential American poet.

from An Individual History

This was before the time of lithium and Zoloft
before mood stabilizers and anxiolytics
and almost all the psychotropic drugs, but not before
thorazine,
which the suicide O'Laughlin called handcuffs for the
mind.
It was before, during, and after the time of atomic
fallout,
Auschwitz, the Nakba, DDT, and you could take water
cures,
find solace in quarantines, participate in shunnings,
or stand at Lourdes among the canes and crutches.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393239218
• Artikelnr.: 59592747

Autorenporträt

Michael Collier's The Ledge was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and Director Emeritus of the Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences.