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Picnic, Lightning /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t A portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal -- |t Fishing on the Susquehanna in July -- |t To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now -- |t I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" -- |t Afternoon with Irish cows -- |t Marginalia -- |t What I learned today -- |t Journal -- |t Some days -- |t Silence -- |t Picnic, lightning -- |t In the room of a thousand miles -- |t Morning -- |t Bonsai -- |t Splitting wood -- |t Shoveling snow with Buddha -- |t I go back to the house for a book -- |t After the storm -- |t Snow -- |t Moon -- |t Looking west -- |t This much I do remember -- |t Japan -- |t Victoria's Secret -- |t Musee des beaux arts revisited -- |t Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- |t Paradelle for Susan -- |t Duck/rabbit -- |t Egypt -- |t Home again -- |t Lines lost among trees -- |t The many faces of jazz -- |t Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- |t The night house -- |t The death of the hat -- |t The list of ancient pastimes -- |t Passengers -- |t Serpentine -- |t Reincarnation and you -- |t Jazz and nature -- |t And his sextet -- |t Where I live -- |t My life -- |t Aristotle. |
| 520 | |a 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. Ranging from a lament over "Forgetfulness"--"Whatever it is you are struggling to remember/it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, /not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen"--to a love poem that starts with weighing a dog, to a definitive "Life of Riley" ("He never had a job, a family or a sore throat"), Billy Collins' poems often seem modest and homespun, until the reader finds himself suddenly dissolving into laughter or tears. As for his popularity, a recent piece in Publishers Weekly, which ran before his three-book deal with Random House was made public, will perhaps be more convincing than any editor trying to flog a book in a fact sheet could be: "In February alone, three of Collins' collections sold nearly 8000 copies ... Fresh Air/Terry Gross recently rebroadcast an hour-long interview with Collins; the following day Picnic, Lightning briefly hit #59 in Amazon.com's bestseller rankings." Billy Collins is a dynamic and popular reader. He makes between thirty and forty appearances a year. His arrival at a prominent trade publishing house will ensure an even wider audience for his poetry and will capitalize on his increasing popularity. Household name may not be too much to ask for | ||
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