Billy Collins
Forfatter af Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2000. (Bowker Author Biography) Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He earned a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, and both an MA and PhD from the University of California-Riverside. Collins conducted summer poetry workshops at University College Galway and is the Poet in Residence at Burren College of Art in Ireland. He is also a professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). In 1992, Collins was chosen to be the Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2001 and held the title until 2003. Collins then served as Poet Laureate for the State of New York from 2004 until 2006. His poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks and periodicals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The American scholar, Harper's, The Paris Review and The New Yorker. He is the author of six books of poetry including "The Art of Drowning." His poems have also been selected to appear in The Best American Poetry of 1992, 1993 and 1997. His works have won various awards including the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize and the Levinson Prize, all awarded by Poetry. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His collection of poems entitled Aimless Love made numerous best-seller lists in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Billy Collins
Amor Universal 2 eksemplarer
The History Teacher 1 eksemplar
Mortification (ROBERTSON) 1 eksemplar
The names 1 eksemplar
Contra Sinos de Vento (haiku) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Bidragyder — 381 eksemplarer
The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop, and the Poetry of a New Generation (2003) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 243 eksemplarer
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Bidragyder — 171 eksemplarer
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Bidragyder — 166 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Bidragyder — 165 eksemplarer
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Bidragyder — 147 eksemplarer
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 114 eksemplarer
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance (2006) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 85 eksemplarer
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Nausea 9, Fall 1975 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Collins, William James
- Andre navne
- COLLINS,, William James
COLLINS, Billy - Fødselsdato
- 1941-03-22
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- College of the Holy Cross (BA, 1963)
University of California, Riverside (PhD) - Erhverv
- professor (English ∙ Lehman College)
visiting writer (Sarah Lawrence College)
poet - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- US Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
New York State Poet (2004)
New York Public Library Literary Lion (1992)
Aiken Taylor Award (2011)
Frederick Bock Award (1992)
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Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series) af Billy Collins
Great quirky poems
Collins is the poet of the quotidian - no other poet can lyricize journal entries about sitting and watching like he can. This collection made up of his best from several other collections with a section of new material is imminently readable. There are laughs along the way, as Collins comments on the world and people around him. There are aching passages that cut to the very quick of the human condition. If you're a poetry reader, you should be reading Collins.
Highly Recommended!!!!!
5 bones!!!!!… (mere)
Highly Recommended!!!!!
5 bones!!!!!… (mere)
I think I'm in love. Billy Collins makes me smile, ponder, and wish I were a poet too.
From 2003, a solid compilation of a broad sample of poets by Billy Collins.
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 41
- Also by
- 49
- Medlemmer
- 10,960
- Popularitet
- #2,158
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 231
- ISBN
- 111
- Sprog
- 5
- Udvalgt
- 69
