Water, Water - Couverture souple

Collins, Billy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1035068702 ISBN 13 : 9781035068708

Editeur : Picador, 2025

Synopsis

'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' – Carol Ann Duffy

In Water, Water Billy Collins writes with joy and wonder about the beauties and ironies of everyday life. The best poems, he believes, begin in clarity and end with a hint of the sublime: A cat learns to drink from a swimming pool. An astronaut recites Emily Dickinson in space. Here is a writer devotedly in love with the world around him, fascinated by its pleasures but generously sensitive of its pains.

Ever a laureate of the oblique, Collins is especially sensitive to disappearances and acts of concealment, sketching objects by the outlines their absence leaves: ‘Everything in this hard place’, reflects one voice in ‘Crying in Class’, ‘is designed to disappear.’ From grief’s soft echoes, to the atheist equally afraid of heaven and hell, Collins remains as keenly vigilant of the light as he does the shadows which dance at its edges.

‘A poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace’ – The New Yorker

'Among the best poems that Collins has ever written' – NPR

'Witty, wry and tender when it hurts, Water, Water is a pleasure to read and easy to give' – The Washington Post

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Billy Collins is the author of thirteen poetry collections, including Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, Whale Day, and Horoscopes for the Dead. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife, Suzannah.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1035068702
• ISBN 13: 9781035068708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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