{"product_id":"9781622889204-my-back-pages","title":"My Back Pages","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Teresa Poems\u003cbr\u003eLike Wordsworth’s Lucy, Floyd Collins’ \u003cem\u003eMy Back Pages\u003c\/em\u003e is memory and wound. Like Poe’s Ligeia, the Teresa of \u003cem\u003eMy Back Pages\u003c\/em\u003e is myth and muse. Teresa is also flesh and blood, a woman with whom Collins had a brief but intense relationship and who gave his world colour and texture, then animated it before disappearing into the future.\u003cbr\u003eLike Wordsworth’s Lucy, Floyd Collins’ \u003ci\u003eMy Back Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is memory and wound.  Like Poe’s Ligeia, the Teresa of \u003ci\u003eMy Back Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is myth and muse.  Teresa is also flesh and blood, a woman with whom Collins had a brief but intense relationship and who gave his world color and texture, then animated it before disappearing into the future.  She exists now in poems that are precise and allusive in their conjuring of one whose name becomes “a byword for all things of beauty and grace.”  Collins, who has written a book on Seamus Heaney and numerous essay-reviews on contemporary poetry for \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, takes his rightful place among our most affective poets with this lyrical sequence:  “From the ruck and maul of our humanity… \/  we rise incorruptible.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57980875571574,"sku":"9781622889204","price":23.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38242141.jpg?v=1780075469","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781622889204-my-back-pages","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}