Product Description: Poetry. "This wise, playful, polyvalent masterwork reflects a singular, patient, astutely observant, pertinacious man's lifelong commitment to participating, justly and compassionately, in the world as he has found it around him. Collom's vision is of a natural complex that is extravagantly complicated and deliriously infinite...read more

Product Description: A collection of twelve formally distinct poems collaboratively written by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. The two poets began working together in 1992, and over the years they have developed a repertoire of forms and procedures, all intended to extend the possibilities for invention, play, and the unfolding of unforeseeable meaning...read more

Product Description: IN THE WIND is a collection of poems written by Jack Collom while sitting on a bench at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. During the summer of 2006, the poet worked in collaboration with passers-by and wrote original, on-the-spot poetry on request, as a way to both interact with and analyze the Mall's thriving and pulsing community...read more

Product Description: Sixty five alphabetically ordered entries on poetry, each more than two pages, offering exercises, examples and student samples. Also includes seven essays pertaining to teaching poetry, several suggestions on how to use the book, and an appendix showing exercises by school subject A collection of entries pertaining to virtually all the different forms of poetry...read more

Product Description: Poetry. EXCHANGES OF EARTH & SKY, a collage-rich paean to birds in all their experimental flights, is poet Jack Collom's 21st book of poetry (all published by small presses). Collom lives in Boulder and teaches at Naropa University...read more

Product Description: Poetry. EXTREMES & BALANCES is a collection of poetry spanning 50 years of Collom's wonderful sense of experimentation and playfulmode of composition. The book is enhanced by multiple art pieces by Jack Collom.

Product Description: Poetry. Music. "Blue Yodel, Blue Heron" sung, yodeled and spoken by Jack Collom, with guitar and fiddle music by Dan Hankin and Sierra Collom, respectively, cobbles together a long poem from the '60s (a kind of epic Aesopian Fantasy of a shape-shifting blue heron) and "The Epistemology Nature-lovin' Blue Yodel," antic comments in a sort of philosophy-squeezed-through-country-westernstyle...read more

Product Description: Poetry and polemics have typically gone in opposite directions—the fine flame of the sonnet, blue cone in orange, versus the raging blazes of oratory. But opposites are alike in every way but one, and when poets have bcome politically aroused, Areopagiticas of language have been ignited (look it up!)...read more

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Product Description: Poetry. "Here, you'll find no simple-minded roars of indignation (or whispers of self-indulgent post-idyllic wistfulness) brought on by the words ecology and environment - GREAT SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS WIT, ELOQUENCE, AND PASSION! There really is a here here, in Jack Collom's environs poems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How do you assess such a personal art as poetry? Basing his discussion on the best poems he has collected from his students over the years (included in this book), Collom provides a poet's view on what makes them exceptional. This cheerful and direct approach offers numerous exercises and specific examples of what works, throughout the text, with a summary of his philosophy and methodology at the end...read more