How to Sing When People Cut Off Your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water

by Michael Collins

How To Sing When People Cut Off Your Head And Leave It Floating In The Water is a poetic journey with the soul. Confusions and revelations define the process through which the speaker eventually comes to know his "own" soul. With poetic styles varying as content and perspectives unfold, the chapbook mixes the mythical and the conversational, discovering the dynamics between self, other, soul, and the strange realities in which they find themselves. This book is a necessity for explorers of the psyche, the Absolute, comparative mythology, theology, aesthetics and poetics, and especially the mysterious overlaps and conversations between them.

26 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Michael Collins’ poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in more than 70 journals and magazines. He is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collections Psalmandala and Appearances. He teaches creative and expository writing at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and is the Director of Studies at Why There Are Words Press and curator of the New York City branch of the national Why There Are Words Reading Series. Visit notthatmichaelcollins.com for more.