![Item #7149] Nine Horses: Poems with: Ephemera. Billy Collins](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7149_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735576329)
New York, NY: Random House, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. “This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, / I fell in love with a wren / and later in the day with a mouse / the cat had dropped under the dining room table. / In the shadows of an autumn evening, / I fell for a seamstress / still at her machine in the tailor’s window, / and later..... More
[Item #7149]![Item #7147] The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems. Billy Collins](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7147_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735576329)
New York, NY, USA: Random House, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Billy Collins to Laurence Goldstein. "Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise have remained closed. Like the book's title, Collins's poems are filled with mischief, humor, and..... More
[Item #7147]![Item #7203] Boulevard Vol. 9 No. 3 (No. 27, Fall 1994). Richard Burgin, Robert Bly, Charles...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7203.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736781459)
Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. This Fall 1994 number of the academic literary, cultural & art journal chiefly edited by the acclaimed, prize-winning author Richard Burgin (1947-2020) features the poem "Wise" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar & racetrack- an exemplary late reminiscence of his & a female companion's soon-to-be running out of booze. (pg. 33; Debritto, B1781, pg. 409) Also..... More
[Item #7203]![Item #7158] Wormwood Review Vol. 27 No. 4 (No. 108, 1987). Marvin Malone, Charles Bukowski, Billy...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7158_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735576577)
Stockton, CA, USA: The Wormwood Review, 1987. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “There is a quality of Japanese water / that makes everyone submerged in it / laugh like they never laughed before. // The clarity of the oriental fluid / and its soft, oxygenated texture / combine with its boundless plenitude / to life the immersed into moods ranging / from giddiness to hysteria.” (“Japanese Water,” Collins, pg. 100)..... More
[Item #7158]![Item #5581] The Apple That Astonished Paris. Billy Collins](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5581_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685658951)
Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Twice-inscribed, signed & dated by Billy Collins. "One of the most readable and accessible poets to appear in a long time, Billy Collins strikes at the deepest concerns of the human heart and mind. Frequently- as in such masterful poems as "Plight of the Troubador," "Child Development," "Embrace," The Past," and "My Number"- Collins sets up a premise, based..... More
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