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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.
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 aim is not to move a reader, but to rev up his cognitive functions." Smith thought the volume's best poems were the contributions from Kim Addonizio, Craig Arnold, Billy Collins, Carla Harryman, Jane Hirshfield, Danielle Pafunda, James Tate, Paul Violi, and David Wagoner. [2]
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 Poetry Review: John Ashbery "The Problem of Anxiety" Arshile: Marianne Boruch "Camouflage" Shenandoah: Catherine Bowman "No Sorry" TriQuarterly: Joseph Brodsky "Love Song" The New Republic: Stephanie Brown "Feminine Intuition" American Poetry Review: Joshua Clover "The Map Room" Iowa Review: Billy Collins "Lines Lost Among Trees ...
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]
I haven’t the heart to poke poor Billy. [ 2 ] The above meter and line length, often with rhyme scheme AABB., [ 3 ] was subsequently relaxed with alternative rhyming scheme ABAB as illustrated by the following verse from a 1904 collection of Willie Ballads:
(Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]