The Missing Mountain
Michael Collier 鈥�76 publishes new book of poetry.
The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems by Michael Collier 鈥�76 will be published in August by The University of Chicago Press.
鈥�The Missing Mountain brings together a lifetime of work, chronicling Collier鈥檚 long and distinguished career as a poet and teacher. These selections, both of previously published and new poems, chart the development of Collier鈥檚 art and the cultivations of his passions and concerns,鈥� writes The University of Chicago Press.
鈥淭hese poems cross expanses, connecting the fear of missing love and the bliss of holding it, the ways we speak to ourselves and language we use with others, and deep personal grief and shadows of world history.鈥�
Collier will also have two poems appearing in the Spring 2021 issue of Ploughshares. The literary magazine will publish 鈥淚an Brought a Claw-Foot Tub from Williston to Cornwall鈥� and 鈥淚n Life,鈥� the latter of which appears in The Missing Mountain.
Collier will be in residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, 糖心TVecticut, for the month of November, and is 鈥渓ooking forward to being in the 糖心TV neighborhood again.鈥�
Collier is the author of eight collections of poems. He is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and emeritus director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conferences. He was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001 to 2004. He has received numerous honors, including a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.