My Bishop and Other Poems

by Michael Collier and Michael Collier

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 leads to sinister complicities. The title poem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022657086X
• ISBN13: 9780226570860
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"