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Ballistics: Poems
por Collins, Billy
- Usado
- Condição
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400064910
- ISBN 13
- 9781400064915
- Livreiro
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este item
Random House. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Sinopse
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. "Using simple, understandable language," notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate "captures ordinary life--its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy." His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance.Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches on a greater array of subjects--love, death, solitude, youth, and aging--delving deeper than ever before. Ballistics comes at the reader full force with moving and playful takes on life. Drawing inspiration from the world around him and from such poetic forebears as Robert Frost, Paul Valery, and eleventh-century poet Liu Yung, Collins drolly captures the essence of an ordinary afternoon: All I do these drawn-out daysis sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridgewhere there are no pheasants to be seenand, last time I looked, no ridge.Collins reflects on his solitude:If I lived across the street from myselfand I was sitting in the darkon the edge of the bedat five o'clock in the morning,I might be wondering what the lightwas doing on in my study at this hour.And he meditates on the effects of love:It turns everything into a symbollike a storm that breaks loosein the final chapter of a long novel.And it may add sparkle to a morning,or deepen a night when the bed is ringed with fire.As Collins strives to find truth in the smallest detail, readers are given a fascinating, intimate glimpse into the heart and soul of a brilliantly thoughtful man and exemplary poet.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- P06O-00682
- Título
- Ballistics: Poems
- Autor
- Collins, Billy
- Estado do livro
- Used - Very Good
- Encadernação
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1400064910
- ISBN 13
- 9781400064915
- Editorial
- Random House
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2008-09-09
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