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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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal
- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
- To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now
- I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice"
- Afternoon with Irish cows
- Marginalia
- What I learned today
- Journal
- Some days
- Silence
- Picnic, lightning
- In the room of a thousand miles
- Morning
- Bonsai
- Splitting wood
- Shoveling snow with Buddha
- I go back to the house for a book
- After the storm
- Snow
- Moon
- Looking west
- This much I do remember
- Japan
- Victoria's Secret
- Musee des beaux arts revisited
- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey
- Paradelle for Susan
- Duck/rabbit
- Egypt
- Home again
- Lines lost among trees
- The many faces of jazz
- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes
- The night house
- The death of the hat
- The list of ancient pastimes
- Passengers
- Serpentine
- Reincarnation and you
- Jazz and nature
- And his sextet
- Where I live
- My life
- Aristotle.