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The Ledge Hardback - 2000
by Collier, Michael
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- Title The Ledge
- Author Collier, Michael
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Pages 80
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Publication date 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS015480I
- ISBN 9780618050147 / 0618050140
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.86 x 0.48 in (21.74 x 14.88 x 1.22 cm)
- Category Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99085997
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
- Bookseller catalogues Poetry
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Summary
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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