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Title: Nine Horses : Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0-375-50381-1 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Postmodernism
Comment: The poem "Littany" takes Postmodernism and smacks it up against the old oak poetry tree! It's self-aware and self-reflexive, but it still creates a visceral punch! The other poems are all almost as great.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simple Intensity
Comment: Through Nine Horses, ones sees the world through the eyes and the words of one of America's best poets. Simple everyday, ordinary events are described, explained, and examined in colorful detail that does not lose the reader in a maze of words. Most poets, both contemporary and old, overextend themselves and the words almost always seem to get in the way.
We are not spectators to what Billy Collins sees or feels, we are what he sees and feels. He simply allows us to enter his world, and shows it to us through our imagination.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Casual Match in a Very Dry Field
Comment: Billy Collins didn't publish his poems in book form until after he was forty. Despite this fact, he became Poet Laurette for the United States from 2001-2003 (and he may be again, for all we know). There are plenty of people who like to dismiss his writing as simple, or who will say that it deals with bland subjects.
I am not one of those people.
From the first full poem, "The Country," Collins generates words that count more and more as the book goes on. He can titilate a reader's sense of fancy, as he does in "The Country," or create a moment of true wonder about the lives of people outside a reader's world, as he does in the bathhouses of "Istanbul." He doesn't waste words, and I for one was thankful for that mark of respect. He values his reader because he writes the poems in "Nine Horses" with clarity and precision, and yet maintains an easy grace as he moves from line to line.
In "Litany," Collins turns the idea of poetic imagery on itself with sparkling joviality, and it is easy to see why such poems have entered the popular mind so quickly. A personal favorite is "Tipping Point," which asks the question, When does life's wave crest to become an ebbing and not a flowing? No matter which poem I read, however, I couldn't wait to get to the next one.
Collins is a modern talent, who is bringing poetry to the forefront of popular literature again (no, it never really went away, of course, but without poets like Collins, it might). I respect him because he, as a writer, respects his reader. I like his words because, well, they are fine words. Perhaps in time, his sparks of poetic brilliance will be a part of a great literary fire indeed.
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Title: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0375755195 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins ISBN: 0812968875 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Questions About Angels (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822956985 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822956705 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Art of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822955679 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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