01805cam a2200265 i 4500 609483437 TxAuBib 20230106120000.0 211124s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021057220 9780399589782 HRD 26.00 0399589783 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda Collins, Billy, author Musical tables. Poems Selections. Musical tables [BOOK] : poems / Billy Collins. New York : Random House, [2022] xxi, 141 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier You can spot a Billy Collins poem immediately. The amiable voice, the light touch, the sudden turn at the end. He "puts the ‘fun’ back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. In his own words, his poems tend to “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Now “America’s favorite poet” (The Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love—all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry’s famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins’s recognizable wit and wisdom, the poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career. Provided by publisher. 20230106. Poetry.