MAKE US WAVE BACK

by Michael Collier

COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY COLLIER. TITLE IS TAKEN FROM A WILLIAM MEREDITH POEM ABOUT JOHN BERRYMAN IN THE COLLECTION'S SECOND ESSAY. ANOTHER ESSAY, "THE WESLEYAN TRADITION" INTERESTED ME BECAUSE COLLIER EXAMINES POETRY OF THE PAST 50 YEARS, PARTICULARLY HOW NON-ACADEMIC POETS (BLACK MOUNTAIN AND BEAT) RELATED TO THE ACADEMIC TRADITION.

160 pages, ESSAYS

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Michael Robert Collier is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripedes' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. As of 2011, he is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a professor of creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park and the poetry editorial consultant for Houghton Mifflin (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).