An Individual History: Poems
Michael Collier
(Author)
Description
An 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 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.
Product Details
Price
$25.95
$24.13
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
July 02, 2012
Pages
80
Dimensions
6.2 X 0.5 X 8.3 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780393082494
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About the Author
Michael Collier is the author of eight collections of poems, including An Individual History, a finalist for the Poet's Prize, and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland and emeritus director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences. He has received numerous honors, including a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he was the poet laureate of the State of Maryland from 2001 to 2004. He currently lives in Vermont.
