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William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
When Collins first published the paradelle, it was with the footnote "The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas ...
The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and ...
American poet Billy Collins has explored the phenomenon of annotation within his poem titled "Marginalia". [13] A study on medieval and Renaissance manuscripts where snails are depicted on marginalia shows that these illustrations are a comic relief due to the similarity between the armor of knights and the shell of snails. [14] [15] [16]
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998.His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies) [1] and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The poem "Moon" by Billy Collins. The travel narrative A Summer in Gascony (2008) by Martin Calder. The Flying Dutchman character quotes the last 12 lines as he looks towards the sea in the 1951 movie Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Kevin Kline's character, Cal Gold, in the film 2001 The Anniversary Party recites part of "Dover Beach" as a toast.
Taylor Mali is the former president of Poetry Slam Incorporated, and he has performed with such renowned poets as Billy Collins and Allen Ginsberg. Although he retired from the National Poetry Slam competition in 2005, [11] he still helps curate the reading series Page Meets Stage, held monthly at the Bowery Poetry Club.
A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]