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Synopsis
It is no understatement to say that Billy Collins has found poetry a whole new audience across the English-speaking world. No poet writing today insists on such open, direct and courteous engagement with the reader, and no poet has shown the common experience to be such an astonishing and singular one. Collins’ gift is to make the reader believe that everything is unfolding in real time and in living speech; his poetry always has the sheen and vibrancy of the present moment. While Ballistics addresses the most grave and serious of subjects - death and love, solitude and aging - Collins’ light touch and lighter spirit never desert him. Even in his darkest verses, Collins never fails to remind us of the sheer miracle, comedy and strangeness of our simply being here.
‘The teasing, buoyant images in Ballistics are firmly anchored in visions of too-quiet mornings, droplets of water, cold marble and bare light bulbs. But he now writes, more simply and assuredly than he used to, about the flights of imagination that keep melancholy at bay . . . Ballistics glows with the confidence of a writer fully aware of his work’s power to delight’ New York Times
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Review
Collins reveals the unexpected within the ordinary. He peels back the surface of the humdrum to make the moment new.
" The Christian Science Monitor"
Billy Collins demonstrates why he is one of our best poets, with his appealing trademark style: a self-deprecating charm, playful wit and unexpected imaginative leaps.
" San Antonio Express-News"
By careful observation, Collins spins comic gold from the dross of quotidian suburban life. . . . Chipping away at the surface, he surprises you by scraping to the wood underneath, to some deeper truth.
" Entertainment Weekly"
A poet of plentitude, irony, and Augustan grace.
" The New Yorker"
It is difficult not to be charmed by Collins, and that in itself is a remarkable literary accomplishment.
" The New York Review of Books"
Clever, subtle and engaging.
" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
"From the Hardcover edition.""
"Collins reveals the unexpected within the ordinary. He peels back the surface of the humdrum to make the moment new."
-The Christian Science Monitor
-San Antonio Express-News "By careful observation, Collins spins comic gold from the dross of quotidian suburban life. . . . Chipping away at the surface, he surprises you by scraping to the wood underneath, to some deeper truth."
-Entertainment Weekly "A poet of plentitude, irony, and Augustan grace."
-The New Yorker "It is difficult not to be charmed by Collins, and that in itself is a remarkable literary accomplishment."
-The New York Review of Books "Clever, subtle and engaging."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette From the Hardcover edition.
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A fascinating and accessible new collection from the former US Poet Laureate
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0330464388
- ISBN 13 9780330464383
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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