Ballistics - Softcover

Collins, Billy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812975618 ISBN 13: 9780812975611

Publisher: Random House Trade, 2010

Synopsis

In this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects--love, death, solitude, youth, and aging--delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.

About this title

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

Book Description:

A fascinating and accessible new collection from the former US Poet Laureate

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0812975618
• ISBN 13: 9780812975611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128