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  • The Ledge

    Poems

    by Michael Collier ...
    A new collection of poetry by the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2000. "Dark splendor" are the words Edward Hirsch uses to describe the poems of the award-winning author Michael Collier. Collier's new work balances on the ledge between the everyday and the unknown, revealing the hidden depths of relationships. The poems in THE ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Missing Mountain

    New and Selected Poems

    by Michael Collier ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    A collection of poetry spanning the career of distinguished poet Michael Collier.Whether Michael Collier is writing about an airline disaster, a friendship with a disgraced Catholic bishop, his father’s encounter with Charles Lindbergh, Lebanese beekeepers, a mother’s sewing machine, or a piano in the woods, he does so with the syntactic verve, scrupulously observed detail, and a flawless ear that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dark Wild Realm

    by Michael Collier ...
    The award-winning poet Michael Collier's elegiac fifth collection is haunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds: From a cardinal that crashes into a window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier engages birds as myth-makers and lively messengers, carrying memories from lost friends. The mystery of death and the vital absence it creates are the real subjects of the book. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Bishop and Other Poems

    by Michael Collier ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    Think of a time when you’ve feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when we need them most?The poems of this collection explore such everyday dualities—how the human need for attachment is as much a source of pain as of vitality and how our longing for transcendence often ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Folded Heart

    by Michael Collier ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Michael Collier's poems are like a living film of the image of one's past. In rich detail, they bring to life the geography of childhood—commonplace events that have a unique texture of one's own—a dream of flying, a secret obsession, a school pageant, a jam session in the garage. The memories are folded into the heart, but with an inevitable sense of loss, a sense of capturing "the moment held in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Individual History

    Poems

    by Michael Collier ...
    “Profound, emotional, sparing, loving, and sometimes very funny. . . . [Collier is] always the consummate craftsman.”—Poet LoreAn 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2021 Guest-edited by Laura van den Berg

    by Laura van den Berg, Kaveh Akbar, Aldo Amparán, Eloisa Amezcua, Marianne Boruch, nicole v basta, Gabrielle Bates, Paola Bruni, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Michael Collier, Dana Curtis, Nancy Chen Long, Gustavo Firmat, April Eliza Goldman, Michele Herman, Sarah Mackey Kirby, Daniel Lawless, Anni Liu, Chloe Martinez, Matthew Minicucci, Alicia Mountain, André Naffis-Sahely, Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Michael Shewmaker, Ralph Sneeden, R.A. Villanueva, Cynthia Williams, Wendy Xu, Maria Zoccola, Shaleigh Kwok, 'Pemi Aguda, Venita Blackburn, Fernando A. Flores, Tania James, Fajer Alexander Khansa, Amy Lin, Claire Luchette, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Helen Phillips, Fortunato Salazar, Seth Wang, Ruth Hoberman ...
    The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • I Can Do All Things

    by Michael A. Collier ...
    Believe. Dream. Do.I Can Do All Things is an inspiring children's book that reminds young readers they can achieve anything with faith, courage, and determination. Written by Michael A. Collier, this beautifully illustrated story helps children discover confidence through faith and understand that their true strength comes from within - and from God.Perfect for bedtime stories, classroom reading, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Moral Realism

    by Michael Stingl, John Collier ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
    Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.Across a wide range of species that are social and intelligent, possibilities arise for helping others, responding empathetically to the needs of others, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin

    Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption

    by Michael W. Collier ...
    Series series Studies in International Relations
    Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems appear to be worsening in the post-Cold War period. This work discovers why IGO/NGO efforts to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Rockefellers

    An American Dynasty

    by Peter Collier, David Horowitz ...
    Narrated by Michael Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours 45 min

    This is the story of an American dynasty. It begins with John D. Rockefeller, Sr., who amassed a fortune amid the muck and disorder of the Pennsylvania oil fields and left his son to deal with the public outcry. It follows Rockefeller junior as he built the charities and foundations that made the name a public institution, and it tracks the lives of the junior Rockefeller's five brothers, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    **One of the California Review of Books' Best Poetry Books of 2025The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers.**Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep ... Read more

    $27.99 USD