Books written by Michael Collier

  • White Sands National Monument

    A road headed southwest from Point of Sands to the ranch of Jose and Felipe Lucero . These two brothers built ranches on the southwest edge of the playa lake in White Sands that now bears their name . Both were sheriffs of Dona Ana ...

  • Dams and Rivers: A Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams

    Dams & river regulation have become an integral part of 20th-century landscape & livelihood.

  • An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology

    In 1964 Eddie McKee convened a round table at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff to sort out all this confusion . McKee and company concluded that the ancestral Colorado River had indeed flowed down through Marble Canyon ...

  • Sculpted by Ice: Glaciers and the Alaska Landscape

    EXIT GLACIER Seward highway Exit is one of many glaciers that pour down from the Harding Icefield . Kenai Fjords National Park Exit Glacier is a landlocked glacier streaming out of the Harding Icefield within walking distance from the ...

  • Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change

    Mantua , N.J. , Hare , S.R. , Zhang , Y. , Wallace , J.M. , and Francis , R.C. , 1997 , A Pacific interdecadal climate ... Dettinger , M.D. , Cayan , D.R. , McCabe , G.J. , and Marengo , J.A. , 2000 , Multiscale streamflow variability ...

  • Make Us Wave Back: Essays on Poetry and Influence

    “Michael Collier’s book is refreshing in its refusal to push for one particular aesthetic. He regards his own preference for realism over abstraction as more a matter of temperament than...

  • My Bishop and Other Poems

    Throughout, this collection pursues a quiet but ferocious need to get to the bottom of things.

  • Microsoft Azure Essentials - Fundamentals of Azure

    The first ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, introduces developers and IT professionals to the wide range of capabilities in Azure.

  • Doctor Who and the Taint

    The Tardis lands in 1963, and soon the Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by Charles Roley on former sufferers of mental illness -- he is probing the psyches of six people who believed they've ...

  • An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology

    An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology

  • A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations

    Writers whose lives and work were inspired by the late fiction editor at The New Yorker share intimate essays and other writings about his contributions as a mentor, an author, and a literary correspondent, in a collection that includes ...

  • The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems

    The Missing Mountain brings together a lifetime of work, chronicling Collier’s long and distinguished career as a poet and teacher.

  • An Individual History: Poems

    “Profound, emotional, sparing, loving, and sometimes very funny. . . . [Collier is] always the consummate craftsman.”—Poet Lore An Individual History describes the fears, anger, and guilt—personal, familial, societal, political, and ...

  • Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change

    This book shows that floods and droughts don't happen by accident but are the products of patterns of wind, temperature, and precipitation that produce meteorologic extremes.

  • The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

    A galaxy of writers epitomizes the state of American poetry at the century's close.

  • My Bishop and Other Poems

    Throughout, this collection pursues a quiet but ferocious need to get to the bottom of things.

  • The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems

    ... the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of ... missing mountain : new and selected poems / Michael Collier. Other titles: Phoenix poets. Description: Chicago ; London ...

  • Over the Rivers

    Full-color, aerial photographs provides an overview of the geological features and rivers of the United States.