The Folded Heart

About the Author

About the author Michael Collier has won several awards and fellowships for his poetry, a "Discovery" I The Nation award (1981), the 1988 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Thomas J. Watson fellowship, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and an NEA creative writing fellowship. A graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 19761 and the University of Arizona (M.F.A. 1979), Collier has traveled widelyfrom London to northern Africa to Siberia and Japan- and worked at various times as a house painter and a community activist. He is an assistant professor of English and associate director of creative writing at the University of Maryland and a visiting assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He was director of the summer writers' conference at Johns Hopkins in 1987 and coordinator of poetry programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1983-84. His first book, The Clasp and Other Poems, was published by Wesleyan in 1986. About the book The Folded Heart was composed on the Compugraphic MCS 100 electronic digital typesetting system in Trump Mediaeval, a contemporary typeface based on classical prototypes. Trump Mediaeval was designed by the German graphic artist and type designer Georg Trump (1895-1986). It was initially issued in 1954, by C.E. Weber Typefoundry of Stuttgart, in the form of foundry type and linecasting matrices. This book was composed by Lithocraft Company of Grundy Center, Iowa. It was designed and produced by Kachergis Book Design of Pittsboro, North Carolina. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1989 ...