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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.
Inspiration for the novel came after Stein watched the 1998 Mongolian documentary State of Dogs, [2] [3] and then later in 2004 heard poet Billy Collins give a reading of the poem "The Revenant" [4] told from a dog's point of view.
Stein was inspired to write the book after viewing a documentary on Mongolia called State of Dogs and after hearing a reading of the Billy Collins poem "The Revenant," told from a dog's point of view. [3] The racing experience and insights of the novel's protagonist, Enzo, and his owner Denny are based on Stein's own experience racing cars. [3]
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 ...
William Collins (poet) (1721–1759), English poet; William Collins (painter) (1788–1847), English landscape artist; William Lucas Collins (1815–1887), English author and clergyman of the Church of England; William Wiehe Collins (1862–1951), English architectural and landscape genre painter; Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet
American Poetry Review: Denise Duhamel "Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen" Columbia Poetry Review: Stephen Dunn "The Land of Is" The Georgia Review: Beth Ann Fennelly "Souvenir" Shenandoah: Megan Gannon "List of First Lines" Third Coast: Amy Gerstler "For My Niece Sidney, Age Six" American Poetry Review: Sarah Gorham "Bust of a ...
Collins' only other completed poem afterwards was the "Ode written on the death of Mr Thomson" (1749), but his unfinished works suggest that he was moving away from the contrived abstraction of the Odes and seeking inspiration in an idealised time uncorrupted by the modern age. Collins had showed the Wartons an "Ode on the Popular Superstitions ...
Bill Collins (television presenter) (1934–2019), Australian film critic and television presenter Billy Collins (Australian footballer) (1909–1987), Australian footballer for Melbourne Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet