Sheer

by Martha Collins

Beginning with an oblique nod toward memory, Sheer moves quickly into a territory where personal loss and global violence merge, allowing the poet to explore through highly nuanced language and insight the psychological roots and social manifestations of war. Gradually the book moves beyond destruction and loss to a transcendent but earth-embracing vision that acknowledges the unbreakable bonds between death and life, darkness and light, where words are golden light, on the dark of the water.

32 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

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.