Questions About Angels (Pitt Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Collins, Billy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822942119 ISBN 13: 9780822942115

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003

Synopsis

Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."<br><br><br><br> This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins&#39;s years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Questions About Angels--one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--is remarkable for its wry, inquisitive voice and its sheer imaginative range. Edward Hirsch selected this classic book for the National Poetry Series, and each of Collins&#39;s poems-from his meditation on forgetfulness to his musings on the behavior of angels-is an exploration of imaginative possibilities. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector&#39;s edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."

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About the Author

Billy Collins, named U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2001 and reappointed to the post in 2002, has published seven collections of poetry, including The Apple That Astonished Paris; Nine Horses; The Art of Drowning; Picnic, Lightning; Questions about Angels; and Sailing Alone Around the Room. A professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, he lives in Somers, New York.

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Praise for Questions About Angels

"Billy Collins's wry humor and artful casualness have never been better displayed than in Questions About Angels. Poem after poem keeps urging us on to an often astonishing conclusion. Nobody else today writes quite like Collins, and few indeed write any better." -X. J. Kennedy

Praise for Billy Collins

"Billy Collins writes lovely poems-lovely in a way almost nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." -John Updike

"Without question, Collins writes with verve, gumption and deep intelligence. Not many poets can infuse humor with such serious knowledge; not many can range so far throughout history and look so freshly into the future. Not many can please so thoroughly and still manage to chide, prod, urge, criticize, and teach." -David Baker, Poetry "Luring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr. Collins leads them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey from the familiar or quirky into unexpected territory, sometimes tender, often profound." -The New York Times

Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."

This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Questions About Angels-one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s-is remarkable for its wry, inquisitive voice and its sheer imaginative range. Edward Hirsch selected this classic book for the National Poetry Series, and each of Collins's poems-from his meditation on forgetfulness to his musings on the behavior of angels-is an exploration of imaginative possibilities. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822942119
• ISBN 13: 9780822942115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88