Now in paperback, Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems -- with the sparkling addition of some new ones -- of one of America's most revered poets.Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers his astonishing technical virtuosity with a compassionate and healing vision. A keen observer and a potent commentator, Harper calls a complacent society vigorously to account while cradling the wounded and remembering the lost.