'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been. A writer of immense grace and humanity, Billy Collins shows how the great forces of history and nature converge on the tiniest details of our lives - and in doing so presents them in a new radiance. He is also unbelievably funny. 'The most popular poet in America' New York Times 'Billy Collins writes lovely poems ...Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides' John Updike 'Billy Collins' medium is a rare amalgam of accessibility and intelligence. I'd follow this man's mind anywhere. Expect to be surprised' Michael Donaghy 'Smart, his strings tuned and resonant, his wonderful eye looping over the things, events and ideas of the world, rueful, playful, warm voiced, easy to love' E. Annie Proulx
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A delicious collection in every way,
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This review is from: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems (Paperback)
Ah, the pleasure Billy Collins brings his readers! This collection is spilling forth with gems: Wry poems. Gentle ones. Discreetly but breathtakingly erotic poems, as with the title poem. Poems that are delicate. Elegant and elegiac poems. Poems that make one chuckle. Poems that make one shake with laugther. Pointed, ironic, bemused, observing, warm poems. And windows. Lots of windows.
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Who can resist anything by Billy Collins?,
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This review is from: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems (Paperback)
I suppose it's possible but not his collection in particular. There are poems in Taking Off...that I return to time and again. A wonderful achievement. No wonder he was our poet laureate.
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I Love Billy Collins!,
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Collins is a poet who can put a smile on your face and pierce your heart and stop your breath, all in the same poem. He's disarmingly dangerous. Beware.
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