The Neighbor

by Michael Collier

Overview

The Neighbor is a book of portraits and portraiture. Like the eccentric and mysteriously heroic citizens of E. A. Robinson's Tilbury Town, Collier's figures haunt a startlingly familiar neighborhood. In clear, rich language, Collier reveals the complexities that emerge from his characters' seemingly uneventful lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226113593
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	03/01/1995
Series:	Phoenix Poets
Edition description:	1
Pages:	69
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Michael Collier is the author of eight collections of poems, including An Individual History, a finalist for the Poet’s Prize, and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland and emeritus director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. 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, and he was the poet laureate of the State of Maryland from 2001 to 2004. He currently lives in Vermont.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Archimedes
The Secretary
Vietnam
Breughel
The Temple of Light, 1972
Mission Boulevard
The Steam Engine
2212 West Flower Street
The House of Being
Frohlichkeit
The Raccoon
The Barber
Bread Route
The Magician
Robert Wilson
The Parish Fiesta
Whistler
The Rancher
The Fairy Tale
Baton
Ricordo: Citta del Vaticano
Drill
The Welder
Pictures Drawn by Atomic Bomb Survivors
Letter from Mrs. C. G. Vogt
The French Horn
The Water Dream