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Conversations with Billy Collins (Hardcover)
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Conversations with Billy Collins (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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Billy Collins "puts the 'fun' back in profundity," says poet Alice
Fulton. Known for what he has called "hospitable" poems, which
deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of
nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically
esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American
Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins was
fifty-seven when his poetry began gathering considerable
international attention. Conversations with Billy Collins
chronicles the poet's career beginning with his 1998 interview with
Terry Gross on Fresh Air, which exponentially expanded his
readership, three years prior to his being named United States Poet
Laureate. Other interviewers range from George Plimpton, founder of
the Paris Review, to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor to a
Presbyterian pastor, a physics professor, and a class of AP English
Literature students. Over the course of the twenty-one interviews
included in the volume, Collins discusses such topics as
discovering his persona, that consistently affable voice that
narrates his often wildly imaginative poems; why poetry is so loved
by children but often met with anxiety by high school students; and
his experience composing a poem to be recited during a joint
session of Congress on the first anniversary of 9/11, a tragedy
that occurred during his tenure as poet laureate. He also explores
his love of jazz, his distaste for gratuitously difficult poetry
and autobiographical poems, and his beguiling invention of a mock
poetic form: the paradelle. Irreverent, incisive, and deeply
life-affirming-like his twelve volumes of poetry-these interviews,
gathered for the first time in one volume, will edify and entertain
readers in the way his sold-out readings have done for the past
quarter century.
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