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Horoscopes for the dead : poems / Billy Collins.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.O47478 H67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Billy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 106 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2011]
- Summary:
- In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
- Contents:
- Grave
- Straightener
- Palermo
- Flaneur
- Snag
- Memento mori
- As usual
- Thieves
- Guest
- Gold
- Good news
- Genesis
- Horoscopes for the dead
- Hell
- Simple arithmetic
- Her
- Florida
- Question about birds
- New globe
- Girl
- Watercoloring
- At the home of the Baroness of Pembrokeshire
- Poem on the 300th anniversary of the Trinity School
- Chairs that no one sits in
- Memorizing "The sun rising" by John Donne
- Two creatures
- Vocation
- My unborn children
- Hangover
- Table talk
- Delivery
- Symbol
- Winter in Utah
- What she said
- Feedback
- Drawing you from memory
- Riverside, CA
- Cemetery ride
- Thank-you notes
- Lakeside
- Revision
- Night and day
- My hero
- Meatball department
- Silhouette
- Bread and butter
- Roses
- After I heard you were gone
- On reading a program note on Aaron Copland
- Poetry workshop held in a former cigar factory in Key West
- Returning the pencil to its tray.
- Notes:
- United States poet laureate, 2001-2003.
- ISBN:
- 9781400064922
- 1400064929
- OCLC:
- 627685321
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