An Individual History

Auteur

Michael Collier's The Ledge was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

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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.

Résumé
A cycle of pathbreaking poems about the history of a family set against the backdrop of the last century.