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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
The Revenant is a 2015 American epic western action drama film [5] directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.The screenplay by Mark L. Smith and Iñárritu is based in part on Michael Punke's 2002 novel The Revenant, which describes frontiersman Hugh Glass's experiences in 1823, and which is based on the 1915 poem The Song of Hugh Glass.
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge is a 2002 novel by American author Michael Punke, based on a series of events in the life of American frontiersman Hugh Glass in 1823 Missouri Territory. [1] The word " revenant " means someone who has risen from the grave to terrorize the living.
The latest book in the Hunger Games series has a cover!. Scholastic revealed the cover on Wednesday, Oct. 16 for Suzanne Collins' highly anticipated new book titled Sunrise on the Reaping ...
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