Poems deal with the imagination, childhood, perception, nature, and dreams
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6 x 9 1/4 trim. Frontis. LC 88-28090
MICHAEL COLLIER has won several award and fellowships for his poetry, a “Discovery”/ The Nation award (1981), the 1988 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of American, a Thomas J. Watson fellowship, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and an NEA creative writing fellowship.
A graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 1976) and the University of Arizona (M.F.A. 1979), Collier has traveled widely – from London to northern Africa to Siberia and Japan – and worked at various times as a house painter and a community activist. He is an assistant professor of English and associate director of creative writing at the University of Maryland and a visiting professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He was director of the summer writings’ conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1983-84. His first book, The Clasp and Other Poems, was published by Wesleyan in 1986.
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Seller: Bookmarc's, La Porte, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. CF2 - A tight, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear with small ink pen marks on pages 32, 44, 45, and 47 plus there are the usual library stamps on the top outside paper edges and the title page plus there is some glue staining on the front freepaper from a large library labe plus there is some glue staining on the back free endpaper from a library pocket. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. This poet is a winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, the "Discovery"/The Nation Award, a Thomas J. Watson fellowship, a fellowship at the Fine ARts Work Center in Provincetown, and an NEA creative writing fellowship. By the author of "The Clasp and Other Poems." About the author, about the book, 55p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # SCW11597
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 53 pages. A collection of poems. A close to near fine copy with some very faint foxing in a very near fine dust jacket with some faint foxing to the verso. Seller Inventory # 154715
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Clean, as new copy, signed by the poet to the title page. BP/Poetry. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1760802618688