Michael Patrick Collins

Michael Patrick Collins confronts the conflicts of the modern world with a mystic’s intensity. The music in these poems, their fierce proclamations and sideways spirituality, remind me of James Wright, Trakl, or Rilke, but the voice in Psalmandala may speak with that authority and within the lyric poem’s best traditions, but there is a strangeness here that is all new, and all this poet’s, and this book is a thrilling find.