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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Billy Collins "Dharma" Poetry: Robert Creeley "Mitch" Solo: Lydia Davis "Betrayal" Hambone: Debra Kang Dean "Taproot" Crab Orchard Review: Chard deNiord "Pasternak" New England Review: Russell Edson "Madam's Heart" The Prose Poem: Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Buddha in the Woodpile" Blasts: Dan Gerber "My Father's Fields" Poetry: Louise Glück ...
This book is the 20th volume in the most popular annual poetry anthology in the United States. [citation needed] Along with popular poets who have often appeared in previous editions, such as Billy Collins, Louise Gluck and Galway Kinnell, the book includes poets of "off-center traditions" such as Rae Armantrout and Christian Bok.
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.
In 2005, Wyatt Mason of The New York Times called the book "one of the most highly acclaimed debuts for a poet in recent memory." In conversation with Mason, Billy Collins said the poems of Actual Air "are full of complex turns and tricks and conceptual hijinks, and yet there's this surface clarity. You're welcomed into the poem."
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road . The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder , who was instrumental in Kerouac's ...