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Item Details
Title:
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BALLISTICS
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By: |
Billy Collins |
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Electronic book text |
List price:
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£7.49 |
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ISBN 10: |
0330540335 |
ISBN 13: |
9780330540339 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN (DIGITAL) |
Pub. date: |
12 July, 2012 |
Pages: |
128 |
Description: |
A fascinating and accessible new collection from the former US Poet Laureate |
Synopsis: |
It is no understatement to say that Billy Collins has found poetry a whole new audience across the English-speaking world. No poet writing today insists on such open, direct and courteous engagement with the reader, and no poet has shown the common experience to be such an astonishing and singular one. Collins' gift is to make the reader believe that everything is unfolding in real time and in living speech; his poetry always has the sheen and vibrancy of the present moment. While "Ballistics" addresses the most grave and serious of subjects - death and love, solitude and aging - Collins' light touch and lighter spirit never desert him. Even in his darkest verses, Collins never fails to remind us of the sheer miracle, comedy and strangeness of our simply being here. "The teasing, buoyant images in "Ballistics" are firmly anchored in visions of too-quiet mornings, droplets of water, cold marble and bare light bulbs. But he now writes, more simply and assuredly than he used to, about the flights of imagination that keep melancholy at bay ..."Ballistics" glows with the confidence of a writer fully aware of his work's power to delight". ("New York Times"). |
Reader Age: |
From 16 |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Picador |
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Non-returnable |
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