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Picnic, lightning

Title:

Picnic, lightning

Author:

Collins, Billy, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Physical Description:

103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Genre:

Poetry.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Publication Date:

1998

ISBN:

9780822940661

9780822956709

Publication Information:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998.

Call Number:

811 COLLINS

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Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize

Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."

This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Picnic, Lightning --one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."

Author Notes

Billy Collins has published six collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels and The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, his latest, sold more than 25,000 copies in its first year. He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at Sarah Lawrence College. He was named U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2000.

(Bowker Author Biography)

A Portrait of the Reader with a Bowl of Cereal	p. 3
I Fishing on the Susquehanna in July	p. 7
To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now	p. 9
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice"	p. 10
Afternoon with Irish Cows	p. 12
Marginalia	p. 14
What I Learned Today	p. 17
Journal	p. 20
Some Days	p. 22
Silence	p. 23
Picnic, Lightning	p. 24
II In the Room of a Thousand Miles	p. 29
Morning	p. 31
Bonsai	p. 32
Splitting Wood	p. 34
Shoveling Snow with Buddha	p. 37
I Go Back to the House for a Book	p. 39
After the Storm	p. 41
Snow	p. 44
Moon	p. 46
Looking West	p. 48
The Much I Do Remember	p. 49
Japan	p. 51
III Victoria's Secret	p. 55
Musee des Beaux Art Revisited	p. 59
Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey	p. 61
Paradelle for Susan	p. 64
Duck/Rabbit	p. 65
Egypt	p. 66
Home Again	p. 68
Lines Lost Among Trees	p. 70
The Many Faces of Jazz	p. 72
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes	p. 74
IV The Night House	p. 79
The Death of the Hat	p. 81
The List of Ancient Pastimes	p. 83
Passengers	p. 85
Serpentine	p. 87
Reincarnation and You	p. 89
Jazz and Nature	p. 91
And His Sextet	p. 94
Where I Live	p. 96
My Life	p. 98
Aristotle	p. 100
Acknowledgments	p. 103

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