Now in paperback, Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems -- with the sparkling addition of some new ones -- of one of America's most revered poets.
Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers his astonishing technical virtuosity with a compassionate and healing vision. A keen observer and a potent commentator, Harper calls a complacent society vigorously to account while cradling the wounded and remembering the lost.
Now in paperback, Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems -- with the sparkling addition of some new ones -- of one of America's ...
For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper s poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz experiments, soft serenades, and radical provocations.
In "Use Trouble," his first major collection since "Songlines in Michaeltree," Harper renews poetry as the art of taking nothing for granted. In three groups--"The Fret Cycle," "Use Trouble," and "I Do Believe in People"--he draws on his seemingly...
For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, ...
