Appearances

"I come here when I fear my soul/has fled forever," says the speaker in Appearances, about a place where land, water, and sky converge. In poems that take their shape from daily walks around a teeming harbor, Michael Collins meditates on nature, though not nature as "some place you visit/some museum to nostalgia through," but as a place of meeting and confrontation between nature and civilization, art and subject, consciousness and the unconscious, life and death. The poems in this sequence render images offered by both the human and natural worlds, even as the speaker knows that he "can't reason these worlds/back together."

Author: Michael Collins
Publisher: Saddle Road Press
Published: 11/01/2017
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780996907453

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017 pg. 114

About the Author
Collins, Michael: - Michael Collins' poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and he is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collection Psalmandala. He teaches creative and expository writing at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and is the Director of Studies at Why There Are Words Press.