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Nine Horses

Poems

Poems

By Billy Collins

By Billy Collins

By Billy Collins

By Billy Collins

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Oct 14, 2003 | ISBN 9780375755200

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Aug 10, 2011 | ISBN 9781588362780

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    About Nine Horses

    In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America’s Poet Laureate for 2001–2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz on the radio are the seemingly ordinary activities whose hidden textures are revealed by Collins’s poetic eye. With clarity, precision, and enviable wit, Collins transforms those moments we too often take for granted into brilliant feats of creative imagination. Nine Horses is a poetry collection to savor and to share.

    About Nine Horses

    Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001–2002, and reappointed for 2002–2003.

    What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.

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    About Billy Collins

    Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning,… More about Billy Collins

    About Billy Collins

    Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning,… More about Billy Collins

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Oct 14, 2003 | 144 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375755200

    Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Random House
    Aug 10, 2011 | 144 Pages | ISBN 9781588362780
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    Praise

    “A poet of plentitude, irony, and Augustan grace.”
    —The New Yorker

    “A sort of poet not seen since Robert Frost.”
    —The Boston Globe

    “It is difficult not to be charmed by Collins, and that in itself is a remarkable literary accomplishment.”
    —The New York Review of Books

    “One appeal of the typical Collins poem is that it’s less able to help you memorize it than to help you remember,
    for a little while anyway, your own life.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

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