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Nine Horses: Poems
by Collins, Billy
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375503811
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503818
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2002 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed, and dated in-year-of-publication, by Billy Collins directly on the title page; provenance: an event ticket for the signing laid-in (Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City). Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition. Poet Laureate of the United States 2001-2003.
Synopsis
Nine Horses, Billy Collins's first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet's career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001--2002, and reappointed for 2002--2003. What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022786
- Title
- Nine Horses: Poems
- Author
- Collins, Billy
- Illustrator
- Juliet Van Otteren (Author photo); Allison Saltzman (Jacket design); John Maggiotto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375503811
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503818
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Poetry, Literature, American, Provenance, Poet Laureate of the United States.
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