Mormon Literature Database - Collings, Michael R.

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	Michael R. Collings Michael R. Collings, Poet-in-Residence at Seaver College of Pepperdine University from 1997-2000, has contributed to Mormon literature through both his poetry and his criticism. As for his poetry, he has published several collections, such as Som Certaine Sonets, a collection of sonnets that include poems about Joseph Smith (also published in Epyllion in Anamnesis: Remembery Taliesin: Two Cycles of Poems ). An on-line journal, YGDRASIL, published two segments of Remembery sonnets (April 1996, August 1998), and in the summer of 1999 was due to post Elementals, a sequence of twenty sonnets of which some are based loosely on LDS theology. As a critic, Collings has written the first academic study of Orson Scott Card's work, In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Greenwood, 1990). Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets View Works by this Person
Web Site	Author web site http://www.starshineandshadows.com/
Also Known As	Michael Collings; Michael R. Collin[g]s; Michael Collin[g]s
Religion	LDS

Works by Michael R. Collings Sort by title	Year	Genre
Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000	2003	Bibliography
Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide	2001	Bibliography
Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography	2000	Bibliography
Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card	1987	Bibliography
The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer	1986	Bibliography
Dean Koontz	1995	Biography / Memoir
Brian W. Aldiss	1989	Biography / Memoir
Brian W. Aldiss	1986	Biography / Memoir
“And on His Crest Sat Horror Plum’d”: Some Elements of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Milton’s Paradise Lost	1997	Criticism
Scaring Us to Death: The Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture	1997	Criticism
Literary vs. Accessible	1996	Criticism
Orson Scott Card: An Approach to Mythopoeic Fiction	1996	Criticism
Afterword: Quo Vadis, Bestsellasaurus Rex?	1991	Criticism
New Words for New Worlds: Notes Toward an Anti-Definition of Science Fiction Poetry	1991	Criticism
Afterword: The Folk of the Fringe	1990	Criticism
In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card	1990	Criticism
Acorns to Oaks: Explorations of Theme, Image, and Character in the Early Works of Stephen King	1989	Criticism
Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry	1989	Criticism
Time and Vast Eternities: Landscapes of Immortality in Orson Scott Card's Fiction	1989	Criticism
Triptych in Words	1989	Criticism
Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss’s Psychological Landscape	1988	Criticism
Dean R. Koontz’s Twilight Eyes: Art and Artifact	1988	Criticism
Dean R. Koontz and Stephen King: Style, Invasion, and an Aesthetics of Horror Fiction	1988	Criticism
Literary Heroism in the Works of Orson Scott Card	1988	Criticism
“Argument Not Less but More Heroic”: Epic, Order, and Post-Holocaust Society in Piers Anthony’s Battle Circle	1987	Criticism
Imago Christi: Christ-Figures in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card	1987	Criticism
Filling the Niche: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Contemporary Horror	1987	Criticism
The Rational and the Revelatory in the Science Fiction of Orson Scott Card	1987	Criticism
Self-reflexive Artifacts: Stephen King, Science Fiction, and The Tommyknockers	1987	Criticism
The Stephen King Phenomenon	1987	Criticism
IT: Stephen King’s Comprehensive Masterpiece	1986	Criticism
Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Novels	1986	Criticism
King versus Koontz: Style and Invasion	1986	Criticism
Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts	1986	Criticism
Samuel R. Delany and John Wilkins: Artificial Languages, Science, and Science Fiction	1986	Criticism
The Many Facets of Stephen King	1985	Criticism
Science and Scientism in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength	1985	Criticism
The Shorter Works of Stephen King	1985	Criticism
Stephen King as Richard Bachman	1985	Criticism
James P. Hogan’s Inherit the Stars: A Paradigm for Communication	1984	Criticism
Refracted Visions and Future Worlds: Mormonism and Science Fiction	1984	Criticism
Lewis after Milton: A Sense of Direction for Science Fiction Poetry	1983	Criticism
Of Lions and Lamp-Posts: C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as Response to Olaf Stapledon’s Sirius	1983	Criticism
“To Be Still a Man”: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis	1982	Criticism
Pre-Visions of the Restoration: The Poetry of Henry Vaughan	1982	Criticism
The Mechanisms of Fantasy	1980	Criticism
C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation	1979	Criticism
The Devil's Plague	2011	Novel Fiction
Serpent’s Tooth	2011	Novel Fiction
Shadow Valley: A Novel of Horror	2011	Novel Fiction
Static!: A Novel of Horror	2011	Novel Fiction
The Slab: A Novel of Horror	2010	Novel Fiction
Singer of Lies	2009	Novel Fiction
The Thousand Eyes of Flame: Wordsmith volume two	2009	Novel
The Veil of Heaven: Wordsmith volume one	2009	Novel
The House beyond the Hill	2007	Novel
Writing the Fantastic and Religion: Some Ruminations on the Roles of Poetry	2000	Personal Essay
Diapason	2001	Poetry
Prayer	2001	Poetry
*Blothisojan	2000	Poetry
Celebration	2000	Poetry
Christ of Universe	2000	Poetry
The Missionary's Return	2000	Poetry
Rx	2000	Poetry
Som Certaine Sonets	1998	Poetry Collection
10³³	1996	Poetry
Confutatis	1996	Poetry
Epyillion in Anamnesis: Remembery/Taliesin — Two Cycles of Poems	1996	Poetry Collection
The House beyond the Hill	1996	Poetry Collection
The Nephiad: An Epic Poem in Twelve Books . . .	1996	Poetry
Poetry, Especially for Children	1996	Poetry Collection
Still Secrecies of Love: Poems L. D. S. and Other	1996	Poetry Collection
Tales through Time	1996	Poetry Collection
100–Square-Mile Sails	1995	Poetry
The Challenger Seven	1995	Poetry
Pterodactylus modernus	1995	Poetry
Aboriginals’ Escape	1995	Poetry
Alien Invasion	1995	Poetry
All Calm, All Bright: Christmas Offerings	1995	Poetry Collection
Alternative	1995	Poetry
Before the Feeding	1995	Poetry
Behemoth	1995	Poetry
Bitter Wine	1995	Poetry
Blood Rite	1995	Poetry
The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow	1995	Poetry
Bulky Silhouette	1995	Poetry
Burning Fairy Tales	1995	Poetry
A Chemist with Deficit Cranium	1995	Poetry
Chester the Centaur	1995	Poetry
Cosmology	1995	Poetry
Cyborg	1995	Poetry
A Denizen (Defunct) of Derry	1995	Poetry
Dreamer of Worlds	1995	Poetry
Entropy	1995	Poetry
Evolving, an Amphibious Fish	1995	Poetry
Evolving Proto-Amphibians	1995	Poetry
Going a Mile a Minute	1995	Poetry
Grey [I]	1995	Poetry
Haiku	1995	Poetry Collection
I Become Aware	1995	Poetry
Ice-World Snow	1995	Poetry
If Christ Had Waited Two Millennia (and Found Our World As It Is)	1995	Poetry
If Upon a Midnight Dreary	1995	Poetry
In the Nest of the Dark God	1995	Poetry
Invert Logic	1995	Poetry
I Remember Still	1995	Poetry
Jupiter’s Eagle	1995	Poetry
Lamia	1995	Poetry
Lightning	1995	Poetry
Love among the Stars	1995	Poetry
Matrix	1995	Poetry Collection
Medusa	1995	Poetry
Meltdown Bunny	1995	Poetry
Metamorphosis	1995	Poetry
Midgard Serpent [I]	1995	Poetry
Missionary’s Return [II]	1995	Poetry
My Dog Is Sitting in a Tree	1995	Poetry
Nestlings of a Dark God: Poems 1974–1994 — Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Myth	1995	Poetry Collection
Nominalizations: Aliens Versus the English Language	1995	Poetry
Nova	1995	Poetry
On Star Wars Clones	1995	Poetry
On the Viking Immolation of My Son’s Braces	1995	Poetry
Orbiting Satellite	1995	Poetry
The Passing of Arthur	1995	Poetry
Poe’s “The Raven”	1995	Poetry
Renascence	1995	Poetry
Retooling for the Renaissance in the 3rd Millennium	1995	Poetry Anthology
Robot	1995	Poetry
Roc	1995	Poetry
A Rocket Cuts	1995	Poetry
Sasquatch	1995	Poetry
Satin Whips	1995	Poetry
A Scientist Brave	1995	Poetry
Silver Ghosts	1995	Poetry
Something Shatters Sleep	1995	Poetry
Sparks	1995	Poetry
Star-Rise in the South	1995	Poetry
Such Things as Metaphors	1995	Poetry
The Thing	1995	Poetry
Things to Come	1995	Poetry
Throbbing Heat	1995	Poetry
Urban Farmer	1995	Poetry
The Vampire’s Daymare	1995	Poetry
When the Conquerors Came	1995	Poetry
Within My Computer-Self	1995	Poetry
After First Blooding	1994	Poetry
Baying Hounds	1994	Poetry
Classical Music	1994	Poetry
Dedication	1994	Poetry
Into Bread	1994	Poetry
Lines for a Newly Released Bishop	1994	Poetry
Mission Call	1994	Poetry
Monolith: The Teller and the Tale	1994	Poetry
Nestling	1994	Poetry
Ordination	1994	Poetry
Photographs	1994	Poetry
Rose-Red Lips	1994	Poetry
Seaward	1994	Poetry
Vampire’s Kiss	1994	Poetry
The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow, and Other Poems	1993	Poetry Collection
Elegy for an Asteroid Miner Dying on December 25	1993	Poetry
Exiles on a Left-Hand World	1993	Poetry
Father-Child	1993	Poetry
Hesperios	1993	Poetry
Inchantation	1993	Poetry
Molestation	1993	Poetry
Orion Disappeared Last Night	1993	Poetry
Portrait of the Artist on the Verge of Middle Age	1993	Poetry
Remembering the Flight of Wingless Birds	1993	Poetry
Sacramental Song	1993	Poetry
Sonnet: To Fourteen Who Died on an Unnamed Winter World	1993	Poetry
Spatio-Temporal Spectacles	1993	Poetry
The Stalker’s Promise	1993	Poetry
Trick or Treat	1993	Poetry
Warren Travels with His Father	1993	Poetry
Because I Would Not Stop for Death	1992	Poetry
The Boy Had Killed Himself	1992	Poetry
Child Abuse	1992	Poetry
The Dionysian Hierarchy First Notices Moroni and His Friends	1992	Poetry
Entire unto Himself	1992	Poetry
The Grave	1992	Poetry
The Irrigation Ditch Lies Empty	1992	Poetry
Islands	1992	Poetry
Jurist	1992	Poetry
Mabel Grafel	1992	Poetry
My Son Discovers Classical Music	1992	Poetry
On the Last Day of Her Dying	1992	Poetry
Piano Lessons	1992	Poetry
Playing “The Last Chord” in Sacrament Meeting	1992	Poetry
Primavera	1992	Poetry
The Program	1992	Poetry
Shipwrecked among the Channel Islands	1992	Poetry
Such Things as Worlds	1992	Poetry
This Is the Season	1992	Poetry
Tinnitis	1992	Poetry
Warrants and Assumptions	1992	Poetry
After Thirty Years as Ward Organist	1991	Poetry
Baptism: As Light as Snow	1991	Poetry
Fog, Like Snow	1991	Poetry
The Gospel in the Latter Days	1991	Poetry
On Becoming a High Priest	1991	Poetry
On the Evening of Her 95th Birthday	1991	Poetry
On the Grounds of the Manti Temple	1991	Poetry
Patchwork	1991	Poetry
Revelation	1991	Poetry
Warren Remembers the Chicken Coop	1991	Poetry
Writha	1991	Poetry
Ad Astra Per Fidem	1990	Poetry
Homo Lupus	1990	Poetry
Black Dandelions	1990	Poetry
The Calling of the Dead	1990	Poetry
Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change	1990	Poetry Collection
Dark Transformations	1990	Poetry
Incubus	1990	Poetry
Insomnia	1990	Poetry
A Midnight Shooting on the Golden State Freeway	1990	Poetry
The Ripper’s Daymare	1990	Poetry
Solar Marathon	1990	Poetry
Trick or Treat	1990	Poetry
Crucifax	1989	Poetry
Faces of Fear	1989	Poetry
A Midnight Horror Reading at the Stanley Hotel	1989	Poetry
Our Gods Have Died	1989	Poetry
Bluebottle Fly	1988	Poetry
Bodies	1988	Poetry
Colony	1988	Poetry
Crescendo and Decrescendo	1988	Poetry
Fields of Starflowers	1988	Poetry
Fields of Starflowers, and Other Poems: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror	1988	Poetry Collection
Gargoyles	1988	Poetry
I, Witness	1988	Poetry
In Memoriam: A Father . . . and a Friend	1988	Poetry Collection
On Reading the Stories of Orson Scott Card	1988	Poetry
On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California	1988	Poetry
Star-Pilot’s Funeral	1988	Poetry
Star Poet’s Curse	1988	Poetry
Vampire	1988	Poetry
The Star Scout Handbook	1987	Poetry
Succubi	1987	Poetry
When the Wordmonger Came	1987	Poetry
You, Stephen King	1987	Poetry
Alien	1986	Poetry
The SoulOrgan	1986	Poetry
Wiros	1986	Poetry
Memento Mori	1985	Poetry
Verbum Terrae	1985	Poetry
And Soft at Samarkand the Stones	1985	Poetry
Cosmetic Surgery	1985	Poetry
Critical Mass	1985	Poetry
Curling Southward, Ice-Winds Call	1985	Poetry
David and Bathsheba	1985	Poetry
Fire Dancer	1985	Poetry
The Last Pastoral	1985	Poetry
The Meeting on the Edge of Eternity	1985	Poetry
Minotaur	1985	Poetry
My Last Nemesis	1985	Poetry
Naked to the Sun: Dark Visions of Apocalypse	1985	Poetry Collection
Naked to the Sun [II]	1985	Poetry
Orion	1985	Poetry
The Other in Shadow	1985	Poetry
Secret Shadow	1985	Poetry
The Sheep in Pews	1985	Poetry
The Sorceress of the Silvered Wood	1985	Poetry
Sputnik	1985	Poetry
Trigger in the Mind	1985	Poetry
The Wind from Whirl-Away	1985	Poetry
A Lesson in Manners	1984	Poetry
Eternity Has Finally Died	1983	Poetry
The Bloofer Lady	1983	Poetry
The Golden Chain	1983	Poetry
Naked to the Sun [I]	1983	Poetry
One with Him	1983	Poetry
Orchisophilia	1983	Poetry
Renfield’s Litany as Overheard by Professor Von Helsing	1983	Poetry
Soliloquy on Perspective	1983	Poetry
Stretched Naked on His Bed, a Second Danae: A Triolet	1983	Poetry
Stretched Naked on His Bed, a Second Danae: A Villanelle	1983	Poetry
A Threnody of Wolves	1983	Poetry
Vigil	1983	Poetry
The Blood Burns	1982	Poetry
The Burning	1982	Poetry
The Dark Is Deep	1982	Poetry
Fifth Movement . . . and Final	1982	Poetry
From the Womb of the World	1982	Poetry
Implications of Mortality from Recollections of Human History	1982	Poetry
Migration [II]	1982	Poetry
Sonata Enigmata	1982	Poetry
Aube	1981	Poetry
Beneath the Blue Sun	1981	Poetry
Double Helix	1981	Poetry
Essence of the Other	1981	Poetry
First Contact	1981	Poetry
Heritage II	1981	Poetry
Moonbridge	1981	Poetry
Mythmakers	1981	Poetry
Perspective	1981	Poetry
Reptilia	1981	Poetry
Return to Avalon	1981	Poetry
Rydra Wong	1981	Poetry
Surf	1981	Poetry
Thulcandra	1981	Poetry
Visions	1981	Poetry
Visitation of Grace	1980	Poetry
On Mr. Lewis’ Discarded Image	1979	Poetry
A Season of Calm Weather	1974	Poetry Collection
Piers Anthony	1983	Reference Work
[Review of] On keeping things small by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton	1996	Review
[Review of] Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card	1996	Review
Collings Reviews	1995	Review
LDS Assumptions: [Review of Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead]	1987	Review
Wer Means Man	1990	Short Story
A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine’s Day	1990	Short Story
The Song of the Worm	1990	Short Story
Bars	1989	Short Story
Deathsong	1987	Short Story
The Elevator	1985	Short Story
Forbidden Fruit	1982	Short Story
The Grand Experiment	1982	Short Story
High Tribunal	1982	Short Story
Package from Home	1982	Short Story
Root . . . and Branch	1982	Short Story
Palimpsest	1981	Short Story