Whale Day, Billy Collins
Whale Day, Billy Collins
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Whale Day
And Other Poems

Author: Billy Collins

Narrator: Billy Collins

Unabridged: 1 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2020

Synopsis

A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal
 
“The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the everyday.”—The Wall Street Journal

Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets.

About Billy Collins

Billy Collins served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States, in 2001 to 2003, and then as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. He is the author of several collections of poetry. He has won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry, the Norman Mailer Prize for Poetry, the Levinson Prize, and the Oscar Blumenthal Prize and been named Poetry magazine’s Poet of the Year and a New York Public Library Literary Lion, among many other awards and honors. He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the senior distinguished fellow of the Winter Park Institute in Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (is anyone getting notifications) Balikov

What, in other hands, might be mundane, Collins molds into incisive commentary on the fragments of our lives. Often whimsical, he investigates the things that get us through each day. From time to time, he takes a larger perspective, but it is with a personal stamp. Life Expectancy “On the morning of......more

Goodreads review by Philip

Drinking Billy Collins by Philip Habecker What a poor poet am I, to check out Whale Day from the Library No bookstore windfall for an old friend. Having no money for late-fees - let alone a new hard cover, I calculated the days I would have it, the number of renewals, the number of poems in the book. A diff......more

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