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A new collection of poetry by the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2000. "Dark splendor" are the words Edward Hirsch uses to describe the poems of the award-winning author Michael Collier. Collier's new work balances on the ledge between the everyday and the unknown, revealing the hidden depths of relationships. The poems in THE LEDGE are narrative and colloquial, musical and crystalline, at once intimate and sharp-edged. They render the world beautifully mysterious as they slide into unexpected emotional territory. A son loses his father's favorite hammer, and with it his trust. In "The Wave," the enthusiastic crowd at a baseball game rises and sits in frightening unison, belying their hopeful cheering. In "Fathom and League," a dive two miles deep in the Pacific reveals the submerged volcanoes of the ocean and the soul. In many of the poems, the familiar animal world - of dogs and sparrows and possums in the yard - transfigures the view through a window. As director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Collier has reinvigorated one of America's most important literary institutions. The artistry and directness of THE LEDGE confirm his place among the most significant poets of his generation.
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- Title The Ledge
- Author Collier, Michael
- Binding Trade Cloth
- Edition 1st
- Pages 96
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2000-04-19
- ISBN 9780618050147
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A Real-Life Drama
This dog standing in the middle of the street, tail stiff, fur bushy with fear, and a pedigree rabbit, its neck broken and bleeding beneath his paws, might have been forgiven or simply taken away
and shot under different circumstances and no one would have said much, except his owner who'd gone out into the yard at the start of the commotion, having been involved
at other times with the dog's truancies, and yelled, "Bosco, Bosco, goddamnit!" but unavailing, and everyone understanding that once more Bosco had been taken over by the dark corner of his nature.
But this other sentiment we shared as well: the man who'd raised the rabbit shouldn't husband something so rare and beautiful he couldn't keep it from the likes of Bosco.
-- Michael Collier from THE LEDGE. Copyright (C) 2000 by Michael Collier. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
This dog standing in the middle of the street, tail stiff, fur bushy with fear, and a pedigree rabbit, its neck broken and bleeding beneath his paws, might have been forgiven or simply taken away
and shot under different circumstances and no one would have said much, except his owner who'd gone out into the yard at the start of the commotion, having been involved
at other times with the dog's truancies, and yelled, "Bosco, Bosco, goddamnit!" but unavailing, and everyone understanding that once more Bosco had been taken over by the dark corner of his nature.
But this other sentiment we shared as well: the man who'd raised the rabbit shouldn't husband something so rare and beautiful he couldn't keep it from the likes of Bosco.
-- Michael Collier from THE LEDGE. Copyright (C) 2000 by Michael Collier. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
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"Michael Collier's genius for depicting the world of things starkly illuminates the spiritual hungers that drive human making and the intricate, at times brutal, psychological mechanisms that underpin our domestic and social arrangements." - Tom Sleigh
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