Michael Collier
An Individual History: Poems
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Profound, emotional, sparing, loving, and sometimes very funny. . . . [Collier is] always the consummate craftsman.”—Poet LoreAn Individual History describes the fears, anger, and guilt—personal, familial, societal, political, and historical—that 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 Zoloftbefore mood stabilizers and anxiolyticsand almost all the psychotropic drugs, but not before thorazine,which the suicide O'La…
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Profound, emotional, sparing, loving, and sometimes very funny. . . . [Collier is] always the consummate craftsman.”—Poet LoreAn Individual History describes the fears, anger, and guilt—personal, familial, societal, political, and historical—that 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 Zoloftbefore mood stabilizers and anxiolyticsand 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
- ISBN: 978-0-393-23921-8
- EAN: 9780393239218
- Produktnummer: 34246845
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 492 KB
Über den Autor
Michael Collier's The Ledge was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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