The missing mountain : new and selected poems / Michael Collier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collier, Michael, 1953- author.

Series:

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated 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 Bogan

From Dark Wild Realm (1006)

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 us 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 Highnesss Dog at Kew

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226795256

022679525X

OCLC:

1221017952

Publisher Number:

99988704806