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Collins, Martha was born on November 25, 1940 in Omaha. Daughter of William E. and Katheryn (Essick) Collins.
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( A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultura...)
A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel arch with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this was a modern event, the trees were not involved. --from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence--newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
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In her new poems, Collins explores our capacity for violence and subtle forms of cruelty, as well as the disturbing power of words themselves to hurt and divide us. But she also reminds us that the language of lyric is most restorative when it makes demands upon us; when it is, as in these deeply intelligent poems, both graceful and athletic.
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Collins, Martha was born on November 25, 1940 in Omaha. Daughter of William E. and Katheryn (Essick) Collins.
AB, Stanford University, 1962. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1971.
Assistant professor, N.E. Missouri U., Kirksville, Kirksville., 1965-1966; instructor, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1966-1971; assistant Professor of English, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1971-1975; associate professor, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1975-1985; Professor of English, U. Massachusetts, Boston, since 1985; co-director creative writing, U. Massachusetts, Boston, since 1979; chair department English, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1994-1996; professor, co-director creative writing, Oberlin (Ohio) College, Boston, since 1997.
( A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultura...)
(Martha Collins's third book of poems, "A History of Small...)
(Martha Collins's third book of poems, "A History of Small...)
(In her new poems, Collins explores our capacity for viole...)
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Member Poetry Society American, Association Writing Programs.
Married Theodore M. Space, April 1991.
