Horoscopes for the Dead

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Books
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7.99
book_author_name: 
Billy Collins
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Pan Macmillan
published_date: 
01/07/2011
isbn: 
9780330543736
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Billy Collins|Paperback|Pan Macmillan|01/07/2011
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9780330543736
Book Description: 
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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