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The Apple That Astonished Paris
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2014-02-01
The Apple That Astonished Paris written by Billy Collins and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Poetry categories.
Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins “the most popular poet in America.” He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems. In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers. In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, “I gathered together what I considered my best poems and threw them in the mail.” After “what seemed like a very long time” Press director Miller Williams, a poet as well, returned the poems to him in the “familiar self-addressed, stamped envelope.” He told Collins that there was good work here but that there was work to be done before he’d have a real collection he and the Press could be proud of: “Williams’s words were more encouragement than I had ever gotten before and more than enough to inspire me to begin taking my writing more seriously than I had before.” This collection includes some of Collins’s most anthologized poems, including “Introduction to Poetry,” “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House,” and “Advice to Writers.” Its success over the years is testament to Collins’s talent as one of our best poets, and as he writes in the preface, “this new edition . . . is a credit to the sustained vibrancy of the University of Arkansas Press and, I suspect, to the abiding spirit of its former director, my first editorial father.”
Questions About Angels
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 1992-01-15
Questions About Angels written by Billy Collins and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-15 with Poetry categories.
Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Questions About Angels—one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s—is remarkable for its wry, inquisitive voice and its sheer imaginative range. Edward Hirsch selected this classic book for the National Poetry Series, and each of Collins's poems-from his meditation on forgetfulness to his musings on the behavior of angels-is an exploration of imaginative possibilities. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."
Nine Horses
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Nine Horses written by Billy Collins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with Poetry categories.
Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001–2002, and reappointed for 2002–2003. What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.
Sailing Alone Around The Room
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Sailing Alone Around The Room written by Billy Collins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with Poetry categories.
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.
Picnic Lightning
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 1998-01-15
Picnic Lightning written by Billy Collins and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-15 with Poetry categories.
Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Picnic, Lightning—one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s—combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."
American Smooth
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Author : Rita Dove
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 2006
American Smooth written by Rita Dove and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Poetry categories.
A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner. Reprint.
Delights Shadows
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Author : Ted Kooser
language : en
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date : 2004-05-01
Delights Shadows written by Ted Kooser and has been published by Copper Canyon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with Poetry categories.
"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?
Taking Off Emily Dickinson S Clothes
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2000
Taking Off Emily Dickinson S Clothes written by Billy Collins and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Billy Collins is one of America's best loved poets. From a poem about the relentless barking of next door's dog - "Another Reason Why I don't Keep a Gun in the House" - to an elegy to "The Best Cigarette".
The Last Nostalgia
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Author : Joe Bolton
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
The Last Nostalgia written by Joe Bolton and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Poetry categories.
Collects poems that look at universal connections.
Aimless Love
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Author : Billy Collins
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Aimless Love written by Billy Collins and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Poetry categories.
Aimless Love is Billy Collins’ first compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections from his four previous books. No poet writing today communicates so directly and effectively, and no living poet has managed to both enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and expand it so dramatically: his poems appeal to readers and live audiences across the globe, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic and serious, Collins’s poetry unearths the wonder in the everyday: in his own words, his poems ‘begin in Kansas and end in Oz’. Weaving the themes of love, loss, joy and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this ‘poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace’.