"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. ...
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"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. Calling Harper "one of the finest poets of our time ...[and] one of the most human and humane," George Cuomo of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle observed, "Harper's poetry has drawn its vitality from the incredible energy of his language and the honesty of his perceptions." "Songlines in Michaeltree" is a magnificent celebration of Harper's continuing, unstinting gifts.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Octavo. 389pp. Light foxing on page edges and cloth spine, near fine in a fine dust jacket with faint internal foxing. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First printing, with a full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: The tiniest closed tear on top edge of rear panel, on an otherwise beautiful copy. Rear-Poetry.