Horoscopes for the dead : poems / Billy Collins.
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Details
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- xiii, 106 pages ; 22 cm
- Contents
- Grave -- The Straightener -- Palermo -- The Flaneur -- The Snag -- Memento mori -- As usual -- Thieves -- The Guest -- Gold -- Good news -- Genesis -- Horoscopes for the dead -- Hell -- Simple arithmetic -- Her -- Florida -- A Question about birds -- The New globe -- Girl -- Watercoloring -- At the home of the Baroness of Pembrokeshire -- Poem on the 300th anniversary of the Trinity School -- Chairs that no one sits in -- Memorizing "The Sun Rising" by John Donne -- Two creatures -- Vocation -- My unborn children -- Hangover -- Table talk -- Delivery -- The Symbol -- Winter in Utah -- What she said -- Feedback -- Drawing you from memory -- Riverside, California -- Cemetery ride -- Thank-you notes -- Lakeside -- Revision -- Night and day -- My hero -- The Meatball department -- Silhouette -- Bread and butter -- Roses -- After I heard you were gone -- On reading a program note on Aaron Copland -- Poetry workshop held in a former cigar factory in Key West -- Returning the pencil to its tray.
- Note
- United States poet laureate, 2001-2003.
- Summary
- In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
- Subject
- American poetry -- 20th century.
- American poetry -- 21st century.
- Poetry.
- American poetry.
- ISBN
- 9781400064922 (hc. : acid-free paper)
- 1400064929 (hc. : acid-free paper)