Whale Day

Hardback

Main Details

Title Whale Day
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Billy Collins
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenrePoetry
ISBN/Barcode 9780399589751
ClassificationsDewey:811.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Random House USA Inc
Publication Date 29 September 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins's reputation as one of America's most durable and interesting poets.

Author Biography

Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180- A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More- Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings- An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, he is a Distinguished Fellow at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.