Product Description: Praise for Martha Collins: “A dazzling poet whose poetry is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the twentieth century . . . in supple and complex poems...read more

Product Description: Martha Collins offers haunting reflections on time and other subjects in Day unto Day, a spare and subtle seventh collection. The book consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Collins wrote a short poem each day...read more

Product Description: Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal...read more

Product Description: White Papers is a series of untitled poems that deal with issues of race from a number of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives. Expanding the territory of her 2006 book Blue Front, which focused on a lynching her father witnessed as a child, this book turns, among other things, to Martha Collins' childhood...read more

A collection of poetic works is inspired by the 1909 lynching of two men--one black, the other white--in Cairo, Illinois, an event that was watched by the writer's fruit-seller father and ten thousand other witnesses, in a volume that draws on period news stories, census accounts, and photographs. Original.

Product Description: Gift & Talented "RM" Workbooks develop children's natural talents and gifts with curricular activities that enhance critical and creative thinking skills.This series answers intriguing questions on a wide variety of topics including animals, the human body, science, nature, space, history, and more...read more

Product Description: In her new poems, Collins explores our capacity for violence and subtle forms of cruelty, as well as the disturbing power of words themselves to hurt and divide us. But she also reminds us that the language of lyric is most restorative when it makes demands upon us; when it is, as in these deeply intelligent poems, both graceful and athletic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Martha Collins's third book of poems, "A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet", 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"...read more

A collection of poems in which the author draws on dream and world, image and idea, and sound and sense to describe a vision of open, living space

Product Description: Book by Martha Collins