William A. Collins is een Amerikaanse dichter die gevierd wordt om zijn toegankelijke maar toch diepgaande benadering van verzen. Zijn werk duikt vaak in de gewone aspecten van het dagelijks leven en vindt onverwachte diepgang en humor in alledaagse onderwerpen, waardoor de schoonheid en intrige van de wereld om ons heen worden onthuld. Collins' stijl wordt gekenmerkt door zijn helderheid, beknoptheid en zachte humor, wat hem vestigt als een geliefde en gerespecteerde stem in de hedendaagse Amerikaanse poëzie.
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Billy Collins' Gedichte fesseln durch geerdete Anfänge, die in magische und paradoxe Welten übergehen. Mit selbstironischem Humor entbanalisiert er Alltägliches und erzählt Geschichten in klarer, poetischer Sprache. Als Poet Laureate der USA würdigt man seine Fähigkeit, Poesie lebendig zu machen.
Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic language
Exploring the evolution of poetry in America, this collection of over 600 letters reveals candid exchanges between prominent poets and the editors of Poetry. Notable figures like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay share personal insights, rivalries, and the realities of the publishing world. Through intriguing anecdotes and literary gossip, the book illuminates the creative process and poets' responses to significant historical events, providing a unique glimpse into the lives and thoughts of these influential writers.
To celebrate Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate, we are pleased to announce this special hardcover edition of one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation in the 1990s.
Exploring themes of love, death, solitude, youth, and aging, this collection showcases Billy Collins' ability to blend playfulness with profound insight. Through his poetry, he examines the complexities of life, inviting readers to reflect on their own experiences and emotions.
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.
A stunning new collection from the former US Poet Laureate and one of the world's most popular poets. schovat popis
Billy Collins is one of America's bestselling poets; he is also one of the rarest kind - an unalloyed pleasure to read. schovat popis
An invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew from US poet laureate, Billy Collins
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