Of a unique lyric voice, is one of American poetry's most sensational Wise, funny, sad, stealthy, andĪlways perfectly clear, these poems will not be departing for that littleįishing village with no phones for a long, long time. May open with humor and close with grief. They may begin with irony and end in lyric transcendence. Whether old or new, these poems will catch their readers by exhilarating New poems, including 'Man Listening to Disc,' a jazz trip with headphones,Īnd 'The Iron Bridge,' a wildly speculative, moving elegy. 'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man!' ' And he also serves us a generous portion of

Readers: ' 'Absolutely,' they shout to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin. 'Marginalia,' he catalogs the scrawled comments of books' previous Phones.' In 'Osso Buco,' a poem about gustatory pleasure, the 'lion ofĬontent-ment' places a warm heavy paw on the poet's chest. Southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no In 'Forgetful-ness,' memories of the contents of a novel 'retire to the Reputation, Collins offers the lyric equivalent of an album of Greatest Hits. New York Public Library 'Literary Lion,' and incomparably popularįrom four earlier collections, which have secured for him a national New and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor,

Phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of SailingĪlone Around the Room, a landmark collection of Singing group The Sensational Nightingales. 'High, most encouraging tidings' that is how BillyĬollins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet,ĭescribes the music in his poem about the gospel

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