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The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems by Michael Collier, University of Chicago Press, 196 pages. $20. Credit: Courtesy of Michael Collier/University of Chicago Press The title poem of Michael ...

Black Mountain Poems, edited by Jonathan C. Creasy (cover image courtesy of New Directions. Cover photo: Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, The Studies Building and Lake Eden, Black Mountain College, 1949, ...

Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged, Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea, Recognize his unique and solitary home. This is a poem about creation as supreme ...

Architect Lawrence Kocher, center, and a group of students hold a discussion session on the sun deck of the studies building at Black Mountain College, 1944. (Photo by AP) When Mildred Harding thought ...

""There are waters tumbling a thousand feet in flight/ and forests curtained high over countless canyons"" in The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yin, newly translated by David Hinton. Exiled from the ...

Let me into the Promised Land. The response comes: Go tell it to the mountain, Moses. You’ll get a lovely view, but that’s as far as we’re taking this. It’s a recent event, this conversation, but ...

Somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, there is a bronze chest filled with gold and precious gems. The search for this hidden treasure has become a hobby for some, an obsession for others, and for one ...