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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The epigraph is from a poem in Go Giants by Nick Laird ("Talking in Kitchens"), but is a slight misquote. The original is here: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/talking-kitchens/ Very small (short) poems, many clever (see also: Brian Bilston), as much jokes or wordplay as poems. "The Sociologist" (23) I wandered lonely as a crowd. "A Memory" (38) It came back to me not in the way a thing might be returned to its rightful owner but like dance music traveling in the dark from one end of a lake to the other. "Angler" (113) Alone with my thoughts I spent the day in the stream of consciousness. "Corn Field" (114) Far from any lake, I walk in over my head. "The Student" (117) She made asterisks next to passages she liked, little stars that kept shining after she closed the book. Billy Collins' latest collection of poetry contains very short poems, ranging from about one to nine lines, and averaging out somewhere between 4-6. It's very easy to just sit down and read a bunch at once, a temptation the poet himself is aware of in "Page-Turner": Desirable I would urge you to resist and try to slow down, as the poems have all the signatures of Billy Collins' wry observations, humor and whimsy, distilled in spare writing. One of my favorites is "New Calendar": The poem of next year-- Recommended. I love Billy Collins' poetry, so I very happily picked up a copy of this new volume when it was released. The poems within are much shorter than his readers may be accustomed to seeing from him, but they are still filled with wit and mischief. I prefer longer format poems most of the time but I did enjoy this collection. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither Haiku nor limmerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the more than 125 new poems of Musical Chairs show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his luminous career"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book of small poems is impactful, and at times incredibly humorous. There were poems in here that made me chuckle, others that cause an intake of breath and realization, and yet some still that I relate to profoundly. Billy Collins proves that he is always one to come back to. ( )