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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collier, Michael, 1953- author.

Series:

Phoenix poets.

Phoenix Poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]

Summary:

A collection of poetry spanning the career of distinguished poet Michael Collier. Whether Michael Collier is writing about an airline disaster, a friendship with a disgraced Catholic bishop, his father’s encounter with Charles Lindbergh, Lebanese beekeepers, a mother’s sewing machine, or a piano in the woods, he does so with the syntactic verve, scrupulously observed detail, and a flawless ear that has made him one of America’s most distinguished poets. These poems cross expanses, connecting the fear of missing love and the bliss of holding it, the ways we speak to ourselves and language we use with others, and deep personal grief and shadows of world history. The Missing Mountain brings together a lifetime of work, chronicling Collier’s long and distinguished career as a poet and teacher. These selections, both of previously published and new poems, chart the development of Collier’s art and the cultivations of is passions and concerns.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

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 (2012)

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 (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 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226795256

9780226795393

022679539X

OCLC:

1259323302