The Ledge: Poems

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Summary: Michael Collier's "The Ledge" Suspends Us
Review: Michael Collier's fourth book of poems shows us, with clear-eyed honesty, how we negotiate, survive, and live in our multi-faceted, perilous world(s).

A master of understatement, and detail accurately rendered, Collier leaves us,in "The Hammer" grieving the wounds of fathers and sons, but also appreciating the completeness, the perfection via inscrutability, and unchangingness, of a lie a son has told to his father, which has become, (ironically and powerfully) "incorruptible."

The somber, quiet majesty that reigns all through this collection is immediately rendered in "Argos" which is the opening poem, and which sets the stage for us, as readers, to grieve, to weep "more deeply," to appreciate, to savor and experience Collier's vision and multi-layered insights which make his latest offering a resonant, marvelous, true being.