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The rain in Portugal : poems / Billy Collins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 108 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780679644064
  • 0679644067
  • 9780812982688
  • 0812982681
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
1960 -- Lucky Cat -- Only Child -- The Night of the Fallen Limb -- Greece -- Basho in Ireland -- Not So Still Life -- Cosmology -- Dream Life -- Hendrik Goltzius's "Icarus" (1588) -- The Money Note -- Helium -- Weathervane -- Species -- The Bard in Flight -- Sirens -- Predator -- Traffic -- Sixteen Years Old, I Help Bring in the Hay on My Uncle John's Farm with Two French-Canadian Workers -- The Present -- On Rhyme -- The Five Spot, 1964 -- 2128 -- Bags of Time -- One Leg of the Journey -- A Restaurant in Moscow -- Tanager -- Santorini -- Bravura -- Muybridge's Lobsters -- Portrait -- Early Morning -- Child Lost at the Beach -- In Praise of Ignorance -- Microscopic Pants -- Many Moons -- Note to J. Alfred Prufrock -- Speed Walking on August 31, 2013 -- December 1st -- Genuflection -- Thanksgiving -- Under the Stars -- Mister Shakespeare -- The Influence of Anxiety: a Term Paper -- Goats -- The Day After Tomorrow -- A Day in May -- The Lake -- Solvitur Ambulando -- Fire -- Bachelorette Party -- Oh, Lonesome Me -- Meditation -- Poem to the First Generation of People to Exist After the Death of the English Language -- What a Woman Said to Me After a Reading in the Napa Valley -- Joy.
Summary: "Billy Collin's first new book in three years contains more than forty new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom that have made him one of our most beloved poets"--
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 C712 Available 33111008478238
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet."

The Rain in Portugal --a title that admits he's not much of a rhymer--sheds Collins's ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical--"the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they're in Minneapolis"--to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, Collins here contemplates a weather vane, a still life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, The Rain in Portugal amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of American poetry.

Praise for The Rain in Portugal

"Nothing in Billy Collins's twelfth book . . . is exactly what readers might expect, and that's the charm of this collection." -- The Washington Post

"This new collection shows [Collins] at his finest. . . . Certain to please his large readership and a good place for readers new to Collins to begin." -- Library Journal

"Disarmingly playful and wistfully candid." -- Booklist

1960 -- Lucky Cat -- Only Child -- The Night of the Fallen Limb -- Greece -- Basho in Ireland -- Not So Still Life -- Cosmology -- Dream Life -- Hendrik Goltzius's "Icarus" (1588) -- The Money Note -- Helium -- Weathervane -- Species -- The Bard in Flight -- Sirens -- Predator -- Traffic -- Sixteen Years Old, I Help Bring in the Hay on My Uncle John's Farm with Two French-Canadian Workers -- The Present -- On Rhyme -- The Five Spot, 1964 -- 2128 -- Bags of Time -- One Leg of the Journey -- A Restaurant in Moscow -- Tanager -- Santorini -- Bravura -- Muybridge's Lobsters -- Portrait -- Early Morning -- Child Lost at the Beach -- In Praise of Ignorance -- Microscopic Pants -- Many Moons -- Note to J. Alfred Prufrock -- Speed Walking on August 31, 2013 -- December 1st -- Genuflection -- Thanksgiving -- Under the Stars -- Mister Shakespeare -- The Influence of Anxiety: a Term Paper -- Goats -- The Day After Tomorrow -- A Day in May -- The Lake -- Solvitur Ambulando -- Fire -- Bachelorette Party -- Oh, Lonesome Me -- Meditation -- Poem to the First Generation of People to Exist After the Death of the English Language -- What a Woman Said to Me After a Reading in the Napa Valley -- Joy.

"Billy Collin's first new book in three years contains more than forty new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom that have made him one of our most beloved poets"--

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