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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.
Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics [1] [2] tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married ...
The book was banned in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, [1] but the scandal bolstered sales in the United Kingdom and the US. [2] Collins' publishers at the time, W. H. Allen & Co., told her that unless she took the "four-letter words" out, the book would be banned in Australia.
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The book was reviewed by various newspapers, [1] including the Telegraph [2] and The New York Times. [3] The Telegraph gave the memoir five stars, calling it "a beautifully wrought account of marital breakdown". Camilla Long's review in The Sunday Times was scathing. [4] It won the Hatchet Job of the Year award in 2013. [5]
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 ...