An Individual History: Poems

by Michael Collier

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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 institutionalised for five decades serves as an overriding metaphor for this haunting, bold new work by an essential American poet.… (more)

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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 institutionalised for five decades serves as an overriding metaphor for this haunting, bold new work by an essential American poet.

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