Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems - Softcover

Collins, Billy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812975626 ISBN 13: 9780812975628

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2012

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WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS
 
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Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins’s verbal gifts are on full display.

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Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0812975626
• ISBN 13: 9780812975628
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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