Ballistics: Poems
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Содержание:
Юнкера, Впотьмах, Молох, Прапорщик армейский, Олеся, На переломе (Кадеты), Поединок, Суламифь, Гранатовый браслет, Яма, Колесо времени, Жанета, Купол Св. Исаакия Далматского, Звезда Соломона, Жидкое солнце, "Настоящий художник, громадный талант…"
Описание:
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance.Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches on a greater array of subjects–love, death, solitude, youth, and aging–delving deeper than ever before. Ballistics comes at the reader full force with moving and playful takes on life. Drawing inspiration from the world around him and from such poetic forebears as Robert Frost, Paul Valery, and eleventh-century poet Liu Yung, Collins drolly captures the essence of an ordinary afternoon: All I do these drawn-out daysis sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridgewhere there are no pheasants to be seenand, last time I looked, no ridge.Collins reflects on his solitude:If I lived...Похожие книги
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