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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."
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Lovely . . . moving . . . funny.
As [Collier] shows us so adeptly, so skillfully and beautifully in his newest collection, it's precisely in the face of tragedy and loss that [poems such as these] must be written and read.
Collier's sixth collection engages with childhood, fatherhood, and family life, in the living present and memorial past, a history explored with brilliantly precise detail and originality of perspective.
Though the wide-ranging content of these highly personal poems may seem catch-as-catch-can, it's clear that for the poet they are hard-won fragments in the effort to assemble a coherent sense of selfhood, a quest many readers will recognize.
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As [Collier] shows us so adeptly, so skillfully and beautifully in his newest collection, it's precisely in the face of tragedy and loss that [poems such as these] must be written and read.
Collier's sixth collection engages with childhood, fatherhood, and family life, in the living present and memorial past, a history explored with brilliantly precise detail and originality of perspective.
Though the wide-ranging content of these highly personal poems may seem catch-as-catch-can, it's clear that for the poet they are hard-won fragments in the effort to assemble a coherent sense of selfhood, a quest many readers will recognize.
Michael Collier's The Ledge was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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