Ballistics

Ballistics

book type
0 Review(s) 
LF/497083/R
English
In stock
грн95.00
грн85.50 Save 10%

  Instant download 

after payment (24/7)

  Wide range of formats 

(for all gadgets)

  Full book 

(including for Apple and Android)

A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes *USA Today*, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance.Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches on a greater array of subjects–love, death, solitude, youth, and aging–delving deeper than ever before. *Ballistics* comes at the reader full force with moving and playful takes on life. Drawing inspiration from the world around him and from such poetic forebears as Robert Frost, Paul Valéry, and eleventh-century poet Liu Yung, Collins drolly captures the essence of an ordinary afternoon:*All I do these drawn-out daysis sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridgewhere there are no pheasants to be seenand, last time I looked, no ridge.*Collins reflects on his solitude:*If I lived across the street from myselfand I was sitting in the darkon the edge of the bedat five o’clock in the morning,I might be wondering what the lightwas doing on in my study at this hour.*And he meditates on the effects of love:*It turns everything into a symbollike a storm that breaks loosein the final chapter of a long novel.And it may add sparkle to a morning,or deepen a nightwhen the bed is ringed with fire.*As Collins strives to find truth in the smallest detail, readers are given a fascinating, intimate glimpse into the heart and soul of a brilliantly thoughtful man and exemplary poet.eboox : (retail)words : 11734
LF/497083/R

Data sheet

Name of the Author
Billy
Collins
Language
English
ISBN
9781400064915
Release date
2008

Reviews

Write your review

Ballistics

A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes *USA Today*, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinar...

Write your review

15 books by the same author:

Products from this category: