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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 106 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this new collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, the verbal gifts that earned him the title “America’s most popular poet” are on full display. The poems here cover the usual but everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 112 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poetry that captures the beauty of everyday life, and features selections entitled "August in Paris," "The Four-Moon Planet," "Pornography," "The Flight of the Statues," "Envoy," and many others.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 141 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither Haiku nor limmerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (90 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books: Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins's unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, has enriched the tapestry of contemporary poetry and...
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