Songlines in Michaeltree: NEW and COLLECTED POEMS

*Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems--with the sparkling addition of some new ones--of one of America's most revered poets.* *Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers his astonishing technical virtuosity with a compassionate and healing vision. A keen observer and a potent commentator, Harper calls a complacent society vigorously to account while cradling the wounded and remembering the lost.* *Calling Harper "one of the finest poets of our time . . . \[and\] one of the most human and humane,"* *George Cuomo of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle* observed, "Harper's poetry has drawn its vitality from the incredible energy of his language and the honesty of his perceptions." *Songlines in Michaeltree* is a magnificent celebration of Harper's continuing, unstinting gifts.