It is no understatement to say that Billy Collins has found poetry
a whole new audience across the English-speaking world. No poet
writing today insists on such open, direct and courteous engagement
with the reader, and no poet has shown the common experience to be
such an astonishing and singular one. Collins' gift is to make the
reader believe that everything is unfolding in real time and in
living speech; his poetry always has the sheen and vibrancy of the
present moment. While "Ballistics" addresses the most grave and
serious of subjects - death and love, solitude and aging - Collins'
light touch and lighter spirit never desert him. Even in his
darkest verses, Collins never fails to remind us of the sheer
miracle, comedy and strangeness of our simply being here. 'The
teasing, buoyant images in "Ballistics" are firmly anchored in
visions of too-quiet mornings, droplets of water, cold marble and
bare light bulbs. But he now writes, more simply and assuredly than
he used to, about the flights of imagination that keep melancholy
at bay . . . "Ballistics" glows with the confidence of a writer
fully aware of his work's power to delight' "New York Times"
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