12-5-12: Michael Collier's Individual History

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Michael Collier is the former poet laureate of Maryland. He teaches on the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, and he directs the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

This summer, he released a wonderful new collection of poems. It’s called An Individual History. Tom Hall talks with Michael Collier about his new book.

Collier will be reading from his new collection of poems tonight in the Recital Hall in Tawes Hall on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. He’ll be joined by fellow Maryland poets and faculty members Stanley Plumly and Emily Mitchell. The event starts at 7:00 p.m.

Here's one of the poems from Collier's book:

Six Lines for Louise Bogan

By Michael Collier

All that has tamed me I have learned to love

        and lost that wildness that was once beloved.

All that was loved I’ve learned to tame

        and lost the beloved that once was wild.

All that is wild is tamed by love—

        and the beloved (wildness) that once was loved.

Reprinted from An Individual History: Poems by Michael Collier. Copyright © 2013 by Michael Collier. With the permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

Thanks to Sarah Ray at Middlebury College for her engineering help with this segment.

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Web Extra: Michael Collier reads his poem "Six Lines for Louise Bogan"