Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems - Rilegato

Collins, Billy

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ISBN 10: 0375503803 ISBN 13: 9780375503801

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2001

Riassunto

A definitive anthology of new and selected poetry by the acclaimed author of Questions About Angels and The Art of Drowning offers unexpected, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious insights into life, love, and human existence in such works as "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July," "Life of Riley," and "Forgetfulness." 30,000 first printing.

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Praise for Billy Collins

"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

"Luring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr. Collins leads them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey from the familiar or quirky to unexpected territory, sometimes tender, often profound."
--The New York Times

"What Collins does best is turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinous moment. . . . A poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace."
--The New Yorker

L'autore:

Billy Collins has published six collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at Sarah Lawrence College and was recently appointed named the U.S. Poet Laureate.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375503803
• ISBN 13: 9780375503801
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 171