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The trouble with poetry and other poems

✍ Scribed by Billy Collins

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2011;2005
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 39 KB
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 037550382X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.__ With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book's title, Collins's poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, "Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone"--but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: "The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in the toaster, / and the poets are at their windows. / They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth--the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, / the American poets gazing out / at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise."

Through simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn't have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real...

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