Collins, Billy.

The Apple That Astonished Paris : Poems. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (67 pages)

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- I. AWAY -- Vanishing Point -- Walking Across the Atlantic -- The Blue -- Schoolsville -- Driving with Animals -- Strange Lands -- Tuscany -- Tourist: Dromahair, Co. Sligo -- Flying to a Funeral -- Etymology -- Hunger -- Hart Crane -- Winter Syntax -- Plight of the Troubadour -- The Frankenstein Poet -- Lost -- The Past -- Fur -- Flames -- II. HOME -- Books -- On Closing Anna Karenina -- Indoors -- Death -- Remembering Dreams -- Earthling -- Child Development -- Putting Down the Cat -- The Lesson -- Lowell, Mass. -- Programs -- The Morning After My Death -- Personal History -- Bar Time -- Insomnia -- Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House -- Cancer -- Embrace -- The Rival Poet -- My Number -- Poem -- Hopeless but Not Serious -- Advice to Writers -- Introduction to Poetry -- Desire -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art -- About the Author.

9781610750226


American poetry -- 20th century.


Electronic books.

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