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Whale Day: And Other Poems

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by Billy Collins
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Availability:In StockContributor:Billy CollinsPublish date:2021-10-05Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780399589775ISBN-10:399589775UPC:9780399589775Book Category:Poetry, HumorBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, FormBook Topic:Animals & Nature, Limericks & VerseSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC44VZ3R1W
A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal

"The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the everyday."--The Wall Street Journal

Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country's most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins's reputation as one of America's most interesting and durable poets.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780399589775ISBN-10:399589775UPC:9780399589775Book Category:Poetry, HumorBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, FormBook Topic:Animals & Nature, Limericks & VerseSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC44VZ3R1W
Billy Collins is the author of twelve prior collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife, Suzannah.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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