The Rain in Portugal
The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits he's not much of a rhymer - sheds Billy Collins's immediately distinctive light on everything from travel, art, cats and dogs to loneliness, love, beauty and death. His tone ranges from the whimsical - 'the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they're in Minneapolis' - to the elegiac, in his moving reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student and alchemist of the everyday, Collins contemplates a weathervane, a still-life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach - and transforms them all before our eyes. While no living poet is more wakefully attentive to the world, nor is any othe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-3425-9
- EAN: 9781509834259
- Produktnummer: 20855001
- Verlag: Pan MacMillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H15.5 cm x B22.4 cm x D1.4 cm 196 g
- Auflage: Main Market Ed
- Gewicht: 196
Über den Autor
Billy Collins has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.
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