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  | | Questions About Angels(1st Edition) Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5698-3, ISBN: 0-8229-5698-5 "Billy Collins has a knack for making the familiar exotic and the arcane instantly accessible. His 1991 collection, Questions About Angels, is a loving and often amused search for "the infinite / permutations of the alphabet's small and capital letters." This phrase comes from an ode to his first literary experience--and needless to say, Collins is more honest than most of us might be. Though he would later discover "frightening Heathcl ..." |
 | | Sailing Alone Around the Room(Reprint) New and Selected Poems by Professor Billy Collins Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House Inc Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75519-4, ISBN: 0-375-75519-5 "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 ..." |
 | | Sailing Alone Around the Room(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50380-1, ISBN: 0-375-50380-3 ""High, most encouraging tidings"--that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of Sailing Alone Around the Room, a landmark collection of new and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, New York Public Library "Literary Lion," and incomparably p ..." |
 | | Picnic, Lightning(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5670-9, ISBN: 0-8229-5670-5 "In these playful, conversational poems, Billy Collins immerses us in the minutiae of a life--cow viewing, parsley chopping, "buzzing around on espresso"--and restores a sense of wonder. In a voice half confessional, half avuncular, he takes us by the hand and shares his deepest secrets. Whether shoveling snow with the Buddha, releasing Emily Dickinson from her corsets, spoofing Auden and Wordsworth, or putting words in the mouths ..." |
 | | The Art Of Drowning(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins Paperback, 95 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5567-2, ISBN: 0-8229-5567-9 "FROM BACK OF BOOK COVER: "PRAISE FOR BILLY COLLINS'S POETRY: 'BILLY COLLINS WRITES LOVELY POEMS--LOVELY IN A WAY ALMOST NOBODY'S SINCE ROETHKE'S ARE. LIMPID, GENTLY AND CONSISTENTLY STARTLING, MORE SERIOUS THAN THEY SEEM, THEY DESCRIBE ALL THE WORLDS THAT ARE AND WERE AND SOME OTHERS BESIDES.'...JOHN UPDIKE. 'BILLY COLLINS IS AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL--A METAPHYSICAL POET WITH A FUNNY BONE AND A SLY, QUESTIONING INTELLIGENCE. HE IS AN IRONIS ..." |
 | | The Best American Poetry 2006(1st Edition) (Best American Poetry) by Professor Billy Collins, David Lehman Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5759-6, ISBN: 0-7432-5759-6 "Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry. In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series edito ..." |
 | | Questions About Angels(2nd Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4211-5, ISBN: 0-8229-4211-9 "Billy Collins has a knack for making the familiar exotic and the arcane instantly accessible. His 1991 collection, Questions About Angels, is a loving and often amused search for "the infinite / permutations of the alphabet's small and capital letters." This phrase comes from an ode to his first literary experience--and needless to say, Collins is more honest than most of us might be. Though he would later discover "frightening ..." |
 | | Nine Horses(1st Edition) Poems by Billy Collins Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50381-8, ISBN: 0-375-50381-1 "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 ..." |
 | | Picnic, Lightning(1st Edition) by Billy Collins Hardcover, 90 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4066-1, ISBN: 0-8229-4066-3 "In these playful, conversational poems, Billy Collins immerses us in the minutiae of a life--cow viewing, parsley chopping, "buzzing around on espresso"--and restores a sense of wonder. In a voice half confessional, half avuncular, he takes us by the hand and shares his deepest secrets. Whether shoveling snow with the Buddha, releasing Emily Dickinson from her corsets, spoofing Auden and Wordsworth, or putting words in the mouths ..." |
 | | Bright Bright Wings(Reprint) An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds by Billy Collins, David Allen Sibley Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15087-3, ISBN: 0-231-15087-3 "In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this ..." |
 | | 180 More(1st Edition) Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by Billy Collins Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7296-2, ISBN: 0-8129-7296-1 "Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collinsâs poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of todayâs ..." |
 | | Whale Day And Other Poems by Billy Collins Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2020 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-399-58975-1, ISBN: 0-399-58975-9 "A collection of all-new poetry from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and "America's favorite poet" (The Wall Street Journal).Billy Collins's thirteenth collection, and first in four years, contains more than fifty new poems that showcase the playfulness, wit, and wisdom that have made him one of our most celebrated and widely read poets. This collection covers many themes and moods, including Collins's insights on the wonders of ..." |
 | | Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes(1st Edition) Selected Poems by Billy Collins, Lehman College Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37650-1, ISBN: 0-330-37650-0 "'Billy Collin's is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been. A writer of immense grace and humanity, Billy Collin's shows how the great forces of history and nature converge on the tiniest details of our lives - and in doing so presents them in a new radiance. He is also unbelievably funny. 'The most popula ..." |
 | | Conversation Pieces Poems That Talk to Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Kurt Brown, Harold Schechter, Billy Collins Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26545-6, ISBN: 0-307-26545-5 "This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses to other poems in a dialogue conducted across space and time. Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's coy mistress might have answered his appeal. Raleigh's famous reply to Marlowe's "The Passiona ..." |
 | | Nine Horses (Paperback) by Billy Collins Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-41304-6, ISBN: 0-330-41304-X "While Billy Collins' poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, they might end anywhere - and readers might lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one they had left moments before." |
 | | The Best of Poetry in Motion(1st Edition) Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses by Alice Quinn, Billy Collins Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-60937-0, ISBN: 0-393-60937-5 "“Poems once in motion…continue to move their readers. And what an imaginative variety of poetic delights is offered here.”―Billy Collins It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of 8 million souls. Since 1992, with the presentation of an excerpt from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” the Poetry in Motion program―co-sponsored b ..." |
 | | The Maverick Poets An Anthology by Steve Kowit, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Allen S. Ginsberg, Dorianne Laux, Raymond Carver, Wanda Coleman, Gregory Corso, L. Ferlinghetti, Austin Straus, Gary Synder, Simon Ortiz, Jana Harris, Karen Snow, Joanne Kyger, Et Al Paperback, 146 Pages, Published 1988 by Gorilla Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9610454-2-5, ISBN: 0-9610454-2-6 "THIS NORTON CRITICAL EDITION OF ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT POEMS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EDITION AVAILABLE. TO ASSIST STUDENTS WITH ELIOT'S DEEPLY ALLUSIVE WORK, THE EDITOR, MICHAELF NORTH, PROVIDES DETAILED EXPLANATORY ANNOTATIONS AS WELL AS ELIOT'S OWN NOTES, SOME OF WHICH REQUIRE ANNOTATIONS THEMSELVES. THE TEXT INCLUDED IS THAT OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (BONI * LIVERIGHT) WITH ELIOT'S NOTES APPEARING AT THE ..." |
 | | Hip Hop Speaks to Children A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience) by Elise Paschen, Wendy Rasmussen, Judy Love, Dominique Raccah, Nikki Giovanni, Paula Zinngrabe Wendland, Billy Collins, X.J. Kennedy, Professor Billy Collins, Judith Dufour Love Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2005 by Sourcebooks Mediafusion Pal ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-0329-9, ISBN: 1-4022-0329-2 "New York Times Bestseller! In the tradition of Poetry Speaks, the anthology named a Best Book of 2002 by School Library Journal, and praised by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young," Sourcebooks MediaFusion is proud to introduce the joy of the written and spoken word in Poetry Speaks to Children.Parents, educators, librarians ..." |
 | | The Golden Age(1st Edition) Poems of the Spanish Renaissance by Edith Grossman, Billy Collins Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32991-9, ISBN: 0-393-32991-7 ""Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators."―Harold Bloom Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's "Golden Age, " Edith Grossman turns her passionate fervor and stylistic brilliance to the works of Jorge Manrique; Garcilaso de la Vega, a soldier and courtier who wrote love poetry; Fray Luis de León, a converso Jew; San Juan de la Cruz, whose ..." |
 | | Voyage(1st Edition) by Professor Billy Collins, Karen Romagna Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2014 by Bunker Hill Publishing Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-154-0, ISBN: 1-59373-154-X |
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