Questions About Angels /

Billy Collins -- winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, veteran of a one-hour Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, and a guest on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion -- arrives at Random House with the poetic equivalent of a Greatest Hits album, seasoned with some wonderful new numbers. Rang...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Collins, Billy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
American poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
FICTION > General.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle.
Moeurs et coutumes > Poesie.
American poetry > 20th century.
Manners and customs > Poetry.
Poems > United States > 20th century.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • American sonnet
  • A history of weather
  • First reader
  • Student of clouds
  • Candle hat
  • The death of allegory
  • Reading myself to sleep
  • The Norton anthology of English literature
  • The hunt
  • Forgetfulness
  • Questions about angels
  • A wonder of the world
  • Mappamundi
  • The first geniuses
  • The afterlife
  • The dead
  • Endangered
  • Going out for cigarettes
  • Purity
  • Cliche
  • Field guide
  • Putti in the night
  • The man in the moon
  • Horseman, pass by!
  • Memento mori
  • The last man on earth
  • Come running
  • Modern peasant
  • Instructions to the artist
  • Weighing the dog
  • One life to live
  • The wires of the night
  • Axiom
  • Vade mecum
  • Not touching
  • Night sand
  • Love in the Sahara
  • Invective
  • The life of Riley : a definitive biography
  • Jack
  • Metamorphosis
  • Saturday morning
  • Late show
  • Pie man
  • Wolf
  • The history teacher
  • Pensee
  • The discovery of scat
  • Dog
  • The willies
  • On reading in the morning paper that dreams may be only nonsense
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • English country house
  • Nostalgia.

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