Picnic, lightning /
Billy Collins.
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| Summary: | Presents a collection of poems that explores the minutiae of life. |
| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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| Notes: | Also issued online. U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003. Physical description: 103 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. more |
| Contained in: |
Picnic, lightning. |
| ISBN: | 0822940663 9780822940661 0822956705 9780822956709 |
Table of Contents:
A portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now
I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice"
Afternoon with Irish cows
Marginalia
What I learned today
Journal
Some days
Silence
Picnic, lightning
In the room of a thousand miles
Morning
Bonsai
Splitting wood
Shoveling snow with Buddha
I go back to the house for a book
After the storm
Snow
Moon
Looking west
This much I do remember
Japan
Victoria's Secret
Musée des beaux art revisited
Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey
Paradelle for Susan
Duck/rabbit
Egypt
Home again
Lines lost among trees
The many faces of jazz
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes
The night house
The death of the hat
The list of ancient pastimes
Passengers
Serpentine
Reincarnation and you
Jazz and nature
And his sextet
Where I live
My life
Aristotle.
A portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now
I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice"
Afternoon with Irish cows
Marginalia
What I learned today
Journal
Some days
Silence
Picnic, lightning
In the room of a thousand miles
Morning
Bonsai
Splitting wood
Shoveling snow with Buddha
I go back to the house for a book
After the storm
Snow
Moon
Looking west
This much I do remember
Japan
Victoria's Secret
Musée des beaux art revisited
Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey
Paradelle for Susan
Duck/rabbit
Egypt
Home again
Lines lost among trees
The many faces of jazz
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes
The night house
The death of the hat
The list of ancient pastimes
Passengers
Serpentine
Reincarnation and you
Jazz and nature
And his sextet
Where I live
My life
Aristotle.