Dark Wild Realm（ISBN=） 英文原版

Award-winning poet Michael Collier’s elegiac fifth collection is
haunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds:
from a consideration of the weight of sparrows to a cardinal that
crashes into his window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier
engages birds as myth makers and lively messengers carrying
memories from lost friends. Collier juxtaposes moments of quotidian
revelation, such as waking to the laughing sounds of birdsong, with
the drama of Greek tragedy, taking on voices from Medea. The
mystery of death and the vital absence it creates are the real
subjects of the book. Birds are the resurrectionists, writes
Collier in the opening poem, “Birds Appearing in a Dream.”

Michael Collier has been the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’
Conference for five years and has taught English at the University
of Maryland, College Park, for fifteen years. His previous volumes
of poetry are THE CLASP AND OTHER POEMS, THE FOLDED HEART, THE
NEIGHBOR, and most recently THE LEDGE, finalist for the Los Angeles
Times Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Collier is
the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the
Discovery/The Nation Award, among other honors. He resides in
Catonsville, Maryland.

A PROLOGUE
BIRDS APPEARING IN A DREAM
HOW SNOW ARRIVES
THE WATCH
ABOUT THE MOTH
CONFESSIONAL
SUMMER ANNIVERSARY
BIRD CRASHING INTO WINDOWII
HOW DID IT GET INSIDE?I
TO THE MORTICIAN’S SON
BOUGAINVILLEA
SNOW DAY
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
THE MISSING MOUNTAIN
SINGING,S A.M.
OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH
THEIR WEIGHT
MINE OWN JOHN CLARE
ELEGY FOR A LONG-DEAD FRIEND
A WINTER FEEDING
SPELUNKER
THE MESSENGER
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“tread nimbly between moments of everyday transcendence and
spiritual pining.” (Vanity Fair )”Exemplif[ies] how poetry,
like memory itself, can reside in the infinite,overwhelming realm
between the powerful dead and the living who hear their voice or
feel their touch.” (Washington Post Book World Poet’s Choice
(Robert Pinsky May 2006) )”Collier’s fifth collection is a
compact delight, filled with brief and poignant insights into the
human condition…Readers will find Collier’s poems refreshingly
accessible, though never simplistic. They employ meditative feats
of mind while remaining grounded on Earth.” (Booklist
)”Collier writes elegant, accessible, closely observed poems. It’s
a pleasure to encounter the words he so precisely selects…His
writing seeks the unstable spaces between light and shadow, waking
and sleep, spirit and body, and the places where the living and
dead pass one another.” (Washington Post Book World )