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Synopsis
If, as William Blake insisted, “Opposition is True Friendship,” A. M. Juster and Billy Collins should be bosom buddies. The two poets are complete opposites, Juster a formalist, a classicist; Collins, a populist free-verser. But this hilarious collection brings them together as a comedy team, albeit Collins may chafe at having to play the straight man. After all, it is unmistakably Collins’s signature style that Juster has borrowed to create these poems. Nearly every line is a side-splitting punch line, and poor Billy Collins is the punching bag! Somehow I think that when he comes to, Collins will blurrily recognize his opponent and be elated: “Hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable, mon frère!”—for who else could have mimic’d his voice so precisely?
This is one of those rare occasions when both the original and the imitation are sui generis—like Jackie Gleason and Fred Flintstone!
—Alfred Nicol
This wonderfully playful and jubilant collection is just what we need now: a smart take on poetry and the reasons for writing it. A. M. Juster lets go the starch in poetic diction and comes up with irony, satire, self-satire, good humor—and some of the loveliest lines around. “The house was quiet, / the light in the room more like a snowy air,” he writes, and “The bright obvious / stands motionless in the cold.”
—Kelly Cherry
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He is deeply committed to the Supreme Court’s principles of “fair use” and the Court’s First Amendment protections for satire, and was not born in 1941. He has never served as Poet Laureate of the United States or as Poet Laureate of any other country, state or municipality, and has never served as a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York or even as one of their More Undistinguished Professors. The New York Times has never called him “the most popular poet in America” or, for that matter, paid any attention to him whatsoever.
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The Billy Collins Experience
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