| Appearances Contributor(s): Collins, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0996907459 ISBN-13: 9780996907453 Publisher: Saddle Road Press OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2017948381 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I come here when I fear my soul/has fled forever," says the speaker in Appearances, about a place where land, water, and sky converge. In poems that take their shape from daily walks around a teeming harbor, Michael Collins meditates on nature, though not nature as "some place you visit/some museum to nostalgia through," but as a place of meeting and confrontation between nature and civilization, art and subject, consciousness and the unconscious, life and death. The poems in this sequence render images offered by both the human and natural worlds, even as the speaker knows that he "can't reason these worlds/back together." |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Michael: - Michael Collins' poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and he is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collection Psalmandala. He teaches creative and expository writing at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and is the Director of Studies at Why There Are Words Press. |