Bøger af Michael Collier

Misfortune seems to find Abigail Laurence at every turn. She finds living in her hometown of Wimberley, Texas both a comfort and a challenge. Since her childhood home perished in a fire she is now trying to make good memories in her new one. Her business is doing well but her relationship with Luke is going stale. She is devoted to him but desires another. When tragedy strikes again she pulls herself up and carries on but how much can one woman endure? She wants more but doesn't realize having it comes with a price and everything is not always as it seems.

The material in this booklet seeks to explore and apply the many themes expressed in the writing of James. As possibly the earliest book in the New Testament, it reveals the values, activities and problems of the first Christians. What is surprising is the similarity with many of the issues we face today. These ten discussion outlines are intended for small group meetings, and include questions on each section to guide the group's participants in applying the lessons and warnings to their own lives and church situations. Leader's notes are provide for each discussion.

The award-winning poet Michael Collier's elegiac fifth collection is haunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds: From a cardinal that crashes into a window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier engages birds as myth-makers and lively messengers, carrying memories from lost friends. The mystery of death and the vital absence it creates are the real subjects of the book. Collier juxtaposes moments of quotidian revelation, like waking to the laughing sounds of bird song, with the drama of Greek tragedy, taking on voices from Medea. As Vanity Fair praised, his poems ?tread nimbly between moments of everyday transcendence and spiritual pining.?

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.

A collection of poetry spanning the career of distinguished poet Michael Collier.

A cycle of pathbreaking poems about the history of a family set against the backdrop of the last century.

Includes essays on an expansive list of subjects, among them the literary correspondence of William Maxwell; the meaning of the author's own role as poet laureate of the state of Maryland; the journals of Louise Bogan, and how they reveal Bogan's struggle with her own personal fears as well as the reconstruction of herself as a writer; and more.