A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet: Poems

by Martha Collins

This, Martha Collins’ third book of poems, was chosen by David Ignatow in 1990 for the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola work-in-progress award. Citing the jazz staccato with which Collins presents our lives and loves in their perpetual and rapid transformations, Ignatow praised the collection for its unique ability to fix each passing phase of a swiftly moving rootless society in triumphant style.

62 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Born in Nebraska and raised in Iowa, Martha Collins was educated at Stanford University and the University of Iowa. She founded the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of creative writing at Oberlin College. She served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell University in 2010, and currently teaches (and is available for) short-term workshops. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.