Nine Horses: Poems

Billy Collins

ISBN 10: 0375503811 / ISBN 13: 9780375503818

Edité par Random House, 2002

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4th printing. 120pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition (slight indent top front boards). "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." [jacket copy] "Poet laureate Collins is a connoisseur of muted moments and a coiner of whimsical yet philosophical revelations. In the opening poem of his first all-new collection since Picnic, Lightning, the insomniac poet rises and wanders outside where he is 'simply conscious, / an animal in pajamas.' Elsewhere he gazes 'with affection' out a train window, or continues his 'lifelong study / of the ceiling and its river-like crack.' Collins loves to write about the stillness and meditative richness that is his home, but there are also many traveling poems here, wistful, blissful, and funny. Charm has always been essential to his work, and it now blossoms into sweet benevolence as readers board Collins's buoyant poems as though each were a small boat, carrying them gently into the dazzle of sun or the caress of soft rain. Calm water is, in fact, the book's ruling element as Collins watches a river from a bridge, or offers cascading gratitude for a genuine Turkish bath in clear, reflective, and serenely flowing praise songs."--Donna Seaman, Booklist. "He may be 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. Fine NF hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a Very Good, intact, loosely-fitting jacket, illustrated w/art after Muybridge o/w unremarkable.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Nine Horses: Poems
• Éditeur: Random House
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0375503811
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780375503818
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Impression: 4ème tirage
• État de l'article: Bon
• État de la jaquette: Assez bon
• Dimensions: 0,65 L x 5,64 H x 8,52 P (en pouces) 0,65 pouces de largeur par 5,64 pouces de hauteur par 8,52 pouces de profondeur
• Poids: 10,05 onces

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.