Billy Collins
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Sobre El Autor
Billy Collins has published six collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels and The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, his latest, sold more than 25,000 copies in its first year. He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at Sarah Lawrence College. He was named mostrar más U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2000. (Bowker Author Biography) Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He earned a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, and both an MA and PhD from the University of California-Riverside. Collins conducted summer poetry workshops at University College Galway and is the Poet in Residence at Burren College of Art in Ireland. He is also a professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). In 1992, Collins was chosen to be the Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2001 and held the title until 2003. Collins then served as Poet Laureate for the State of New York from 2004 until 2006. His poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks and periodicals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The American scholar, Harper's, The Paris Review and The New Yorker. He is the author of six books of poetry including "The Art of Drowning." His poems have also been selected to appear in The Best American Poetry of 1992, 1993 and 1997. His works have won various awards including the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize and the Levinson Prize, all awarded by Poetry. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His collection of poems entitled Aimless Love made numerous best-seller lists in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Obras de Billy Collins
Amor Universal 2 copias
The History Teacher 1 copia
The names 1 copia
Contra Sinos de Vento (haiku) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuidor — 388 copias
The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop, and the Poetry of a New Generation (2003) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 243 copias
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 172 copias
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contribuidor — 167 copias
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 151 copias
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 138 copias
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance (2006) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 87 copias
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contribuidor — 43 copias
Nausea 9, Fall 1975 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Collins, William James
- Otros nombres
- COLLINS,, William James
COLLINS, Billy - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1941-03-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- College of the Holy Cross (BA, 1963)
University of California, Riverside (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- professor (English ∙ Lehman College)
visiting writer (Sarah Lawrence College)
poet - Premios y honores
- US Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
New York State Poet (2004)
New York Public Library Literary Lion (1992)
Aiken Taylor Award (2011)
Frederick Bock Award (1992)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 40
- También por
- 49
- Miembros
- 11,290
- Popularidad
- #2,083
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 235
- ISBNs
- 112
- Idiomas
- 5
- Favorito
- 69
It's not a bad trick, though one downside is a lack of really memorable lines and passages, poetic phrasing that makes you think "wow". However there are images that stick out. These include a country mouse that steals a match and while running with it in its mouth behind the house's walls accidentally becomes Another memorable image concerns James Whistler's famous painting of his mother, commonly called "Whistler's Mother", but insensitively titled "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1" by Whistler himself: Collins also imagines the injustice if Botticelli had titled The Birth of Venus, "Composition in Blue, Ocher, Green, and Pink", or the absurdity of the reverse - Mark Rothko titling one of his "sandwiches of color", as Collins puts it, "Fishing Boats Leaving Falmouth Harbor at Dawn." Funny stuff!… (más)