Picnic, Lightning / Billy Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Billy.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry PrizeOver the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Picnic, Lightning -one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s-combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

A Portrait of the Reader with a Bowl of Cereal

I

Fishing on the Susquehanna in July

To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now

I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice"

Afternoon with Irish Cows

Marginalia

What I Learned Today

Journal

Some Days

Silence

Picnic, Lightning

II

In the Room of a Thousand Miles

Morning

Bonsai

Splitting Wood

Shoveling Snow with Buddha

I Go Back to the House for a Book

After the Storm

Snow

Moon

Looking West

This Much I Do Remember

Japan

III

Victoria's Secret

Musée des Beaux Arts Revisited

Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey

Paradelle for Susan

Duck/Rabbit

Egypt

Home Again

Lines Lost Among Trees

The Many Faces of Jazz

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

IV

The Night House

The Death of the Hat

The List of Ancient Pastimes

Passengers

Serpentine

Reincarnation and You

Jazz and Nature

And His Sextet

Where I Live

My Life

Aristotle

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822956709

0822956705

9780822991052

0822991055

OCLC:

606984902