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Horoscopes for the Dead

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Description for Horoscopes for the Dead Paperback. A bold and richly imaginative new collection from the former US Poet Laureate Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 114.

However arresting, outlandish, or hilarious, the poems in Horoscopes for the Dead are typically prompted by the familiar things of the world: dogs, stars, food, love, and marriage as well as life's local triumphs and disappointments, joys and shames. Collins's gift is to unlock the mysterious in the ordinary, and he is always careful to take his reader with him. Indeed, no other living poet has done more to reengage and revitalize poetry's readership, or so deservedly earned its trust.

Few poets have his ability to mix bold, unadorned statements with lyric invention and imaginative richness. And here ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330543736
SKU
V9780330543736
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Billy Collins
Billy Collins has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.

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