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Synopsis
The selected poems of Billy Collins read by the author. 33 poems, over 70 minutes, very high quality recording on cassette or CD.
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About the Author
Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry including The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), The Apple That Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1988), and Questions About Angels (William Morrow & Co., 1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series. E. Hirsch praised The Art of Drowning: "Billy Collins is an American original, a metaphysical poet with a funny bone and a sly questioning intelligence. He is an ironist of the void and his poems -- witty, playful, and beautifully turned -- bump up against the deepest human mysteries." The recording of his poetry, The Best Cigarette (Cielo Vivo Press, 1997), has been heard on NPR, Pacifica Radio network, and dozens of college radio stations across the country. The compact disc won the 1997 Communication Arts Design Annual Prize for Audio/Visual Packaging and has sold more than 1,000 copies.
Collins' poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks, and a variety of periodicals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Harper's, The Paris Review and The New Yorker. His poems was selected for The Best American Poetry 1992, 1993 and 1997. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has also won the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, and the Levinson Prize--all awarded by Poetry magazine. In 1992 he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as "Literary Lion. For several years he has conducted summer poetry workshops at University College, Galway. He is poet-in-residence at Burren College of Art in Ireland and professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY).
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- PublisherCielo Vivo/ Small Good Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0965887316
- ISBN 13 9780965887311
- BindingAudio Cassette
- Edition number1
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