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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | The Stuffed Owl(1st Edition) An Anthology of Bad Verse (New York Review Books (Paperback)) by Charles Lee, Billy Collins, Nyrb Classics Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2003 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-038-0, ISBN: 1-59017-038-5 "The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter . . . On the contrary . . . Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the great ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | The Subway Pictures(1st Edition) by Peter -. Photographs Peter, Billy Collins Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2004 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6284-3, ISBN: 1-4000-6284-5 "In The Subway Pictures, Peter Peter shares his extraordinary images of life on the move, capturing “ordinary” New Yorkers in a remarkable give-and-take with their public surroundings. As Billy Collins writes in his Foreword, “Each of these images is a visual report from underground, the testimony of an optical Virgil bringing us news of the travelers below, momentarily stopped figures in the nonstop shuttling that goes on beneath the co ..." |
 | | Haiku in English(1st Edition) The First Hundred Years by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, Allan Editors Burns, Billy Collins, Professor Billy Collins Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34887-3, ISBN: 0-393-34887-3 "The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the English tradition.Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over ..." |
 | | Dear Editor(1st Edition) A History of Poetry in Letters by Joseph Parisi, Stephen Young, Billy Collins, Professor Billy Collins, Editor-Billy Collins, Introduction-Stephen Young Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2002 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05092-9, ISBN: 0-393-05092-0 "Poignant, hilarious, and brutally frank, Dear Editor reveals the personalities and untold stories behind the creation of modern poetry. "The history of poetry and Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," A. R. Ammons wrote. Dear Editor, in gathering over 600 surprisingly candid letters to and from the editors of Poetry, traces the development of poetry in America: Ezra Pound's opinion of T. S. Eliot ("It is ..." |
 | | The Best American Poetry 2006(1st Edition) Series Editor David Lehman by Professor Billy Collins, David Lehman, Billy Collins Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-2967-8, ISBN: 0-7432-2967-3 ""So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a ..." |
 | | When We Were Birds(1st Edition) Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize) by Joe Wilkins, Billy Collins Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-697-0, ISBN: 1-55728-697-3 "***Winner of the 2017 Stafford/Hall Prize in Poetry from the Oregon Book Awards***Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy CollinsIn When We Were Birds, Joe Wilkins wrests his attention away from the griefs, deprivations, and high prairies of his Montana childhood and turns toward "the bean-rusted fields & gutted factories of the Midwest," toward ordinary injustice and everyday sadness, toward the imminent birth of h ..." |
 | | Two(1st Edition) by Melissa Ann Pinney, Ann Patchett, Billy Collins Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Harper Design ISBN-13: 978-0-06-233442-8, ISBN: 0-06-233442-5 "Two is an exquisite collection of captivating and thought-provoking photographs by award-winning photographer Melissa Ann Pinney that contemplate the essence of duality in our relationships and in the world that surrounds us. Edited and introduced by Pinney's friend, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, the volume is filled with memorable images that encase rich stories: two children at play, a pair of aging friends, parent a ..." |
 | | Eat, Memory(1st Edition) Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times by Amanda Hesser, Ann Patchett, Dan Barber, Billy Collins, Tom Perrotta, Gary Shteyngart, Colson Whitehead, Yiyun Li, Patricia Marx, Tucker Carlson, Kiran Desai, John Burnham Schwartz, Chang-Rae Le, Anna Winger Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06763-7, ISBN: 0-393-06763-7 "Memorable moments with food―collected by "one of the best of the young food writers" (Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food critic).New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers―playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists―in the magazine. Eat, Memory collects the twenty-six best stories and recipes to accompany them.Ann Patchett confronts her ..." |
 | | Pamela Sztybel(1st Edition) Recent Landscapes by Lisa N. Peters, Pamela Sztybel, Billy Collins, Llc Spanierman Gallery, Ira Spanierman Gallery Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2008 by Spanierman Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-945936-89-3, ISBN: 0-945936-89-3 "" This catalogue contains full- color reproductions of the over fifty works in the show, an essay by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D. and "Gallery," a poem by the noted poet Billy Collins written for the artist, which is included as a special insert." |
 | | American Poetry Now(1st Edition) Pitt Poetry Series Anthology by Ed Ochester, Maggie Anderson, Jan Beatty, Jim Daniels, Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Larry Levis, Dean Young, Et. Al Hardcover, 408 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4310-5, ISBN: 0-8229-4310-7 "American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suárez, Afaa Mi ..." |
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