About this title: From the former United States Poet Laureate and bestselling author of "Nine Horses" and "Sailing Alone Around the Room" comes a dazzling new collection of poems.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 9-9-08
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2008-09-09
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2008-09-09
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed & Dated by Author First edition, first prnt. Signed and dated "2009" by Collins on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Actual image of the book; not a stock photo. read more
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400064915ISBN:1400064910
Description: From the former United States Poet Laureate and bestselling author of "Nine Horses" and "Sailing Alone Around the Room" comes a dazzling new collection of poems. read more
"I first head Billy Collins several years ago on NPR; I was totally hooked. His style and use of language are simple and enlightening. I love how he takes ordinary events or scenes and makes them unique. The poem entitled "Ballistics" is especially amusing. The poem concerns a high-speed photograph of a bullet going through a book, and offers suggestions for what book might have been chosen to be 'shot'."
"One cannot help but like the artistry of a collections of poems that can bring tears to your eyes on one page and have you laughing out loud on the next. In those poems that stand out as gems, one gets a sense of the time and pressures that went into the poet's act of condensing to produce the glittering or darkly glowing poem on the page. I have only one complaint: I did not like the parody of Frank O'Hara's great poem, "The Day Lady Died". I detest parodies generally. I wish Billy Collins had not included "The Day Lassie Died" in this book. If there was not a very good poem on the peceding page, I would take my Exacto knife and slice it out of the book."
"Billy Collins isn't trying to impress, per say. He is just writing poems. He is writing poems in such a straight forward manner that at first you may not believe that this simple literary object your staring at is truly a poem...it is. Be at ease. Collins' lets you put yourr guard down as a reader and you can just read without analyzing too hard. It will come. His best poems are the ones where he talks about poetry. There doesn't seem to be any theme to the book, but its seperated into sections which is annoying, it should just say collection of poems. great read!"
"This was an interesting and unusual read for me, since I usually stick to young adult poetry that has very different themes (identity, fitting in, finding love, etc). This book is different and the poems are all over the place but they all seem to be about very ordinary things that are just looked at in more detail. The poems "Tension," "The Early Years," and "Oh, My God!" are all about really simple everyday things but Collins makes you look at them differently, critically, to find new meaning in something so "normal."
I enjoyed this book although there were only a handful of poems that really sort of "stuck out" and made me think. There were a lot of poems that I read once and then moved on because they didn't really strike a chord. I'd like to read more of his work so I can get a better feel for his style."
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