Come Down to Earth: Poems - Softcover

Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize (2013)In a rhythmic collection of a myriad of styles, Nils Michals compiles a book which presents a haunted version of human consciousness, eager to transcend its earthly realm. Filled with distinct styles and unique language, Michals demonstrates his prowess by contemplating our world as we know itwith a drastic re-imaginings. The speaker breaks down all the personal walls of contemporary poetry, incorporating second-person narratives and distant point-of-views. The poet accomplishes the essential task of taking from the ordinary and creating the extraordinary in his observations of nature, news, and everyday life.Come Down to Earth is a carousel of emotions. All of poetry's past is present in Michals's book: love, death, pain, happiness, reality, sublime, confessional, and dozens more. Through the exploitation of the human mind and its relation to the earth, there is a substantial, universal truth in Michals's writings. His subtle honesty emanates through outlandish language and style, and speaks to every human being who has experienced life first-hand.

NILS MICHALS is the winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize in 2013, and has also written the book Lure, which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd award in 2004. His poetry has been featured in The Bacon Review, diode, White Whale Review, Bay Poetics, The Laurel Review and Sonora Review. He teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder.