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Horoscopes for the Dead (Paperback)
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Horoscopes for the Dead (Paperback)
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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 in these new poems, Collins's
inimitable tone - wry, smart, funny, and wise - takes on a darker
shade, as the poems declare a deep awareness of transience and
mortality. The result is the revelation of a world more precious,
more fragile, richer in colour and form than ever. Praise for Billy
Collins 'A writer . . . fully aware of his work's power to delight'
New York Times 'A poet of plentitude, irony, and Augustan grace'
New Yorker
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