Title:
Water, water
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, 2024.
Physical Description:
xviii, 124 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780593731024
Abstract:
"In more than sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes with joy and wonder about the beauty and irony of daily life. The best poetry, he believes, begins with clarity and ends in mystery, and in Water, Water we encounter a writer endlessly astonished by the world all around. Turning his eye to the cat drinking from the swimming pool or the nurse calling your name in the waiting room or the astronaut reading Emily Dickinson while orbiting earth, Collins captures images and moments that mean so much more than they might initially seem. With a voice both simple and melodic, hospitable and lyrical, the poetry of Billy Collins asks each of us to slow down and notice the commonplace in order to discover the sublime. No wonder The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both call him one of America's favorite poets"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Winter Trivia -- Fire -- Marijuana -- Ode to Joy -- While in Amsterdam -- ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ -- Adam Names the Fish -- Magical Realism -- Cough Drop -- Aubade -- When a Man Loves Something -- Addressing the Heart -- BC/AD -- Anniversary -- Turning the Pages of A History of Art the Morning After an Argument -- Sunday Drive -- The Guardian -- Lesson Plan -- Emily Dickinson in Space -- Eden -- Being Sonny Rollins -- Display Case -- Fire in the Movies -- Zero Grannies -- Deep Time -- The Monet Conundrum -- Still Life with Fire Engines -- The Cardinal -- Water, Water -- First Typewriter -- Days of Teenage Glory -- Culture, Textuality, and Space -- Crying in Class -- If/Then -- Writing in English Is Not the Same as -- Being English -- New Zealand -- The Coronation of the Virgin -- The Thing -- Breakfast -- The Flâneur -- Poem Interrupted by Gabby Hayes -- The Horses of Instruction -- Thought a Rarity on Paper -- Beginning -- Incipit -- The Peacock -- Once in a Dog's Age -- The Brooklyn Dodgers -- Frost at the Stove -- Doctor Jesus -- Nonsense -- Against Longing -- Margins -- Drawing a Pineapple -- Autobiography -- Your Poem -- After a Morning Shower -- Daydream -- Reading the Guest Book -- A Change of Heart.
Genre:
Language:
English
