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Picnic, lightning
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- Summary
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Presents a collection of poems that explores the minutiae of life.
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- Creator
- Billy Collins
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1998]
- ©1998
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 103 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0822956705, 0822940663, 9780822956709, 9780822940661, 9780822991052, 1322080275, 0822991055
- OCLC
- ocn606984902, ocm37792423
- Also issued online.
- U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003.
- 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 -- Many faces of jazz -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- Night house -- Death of the hat -- List of ancient pastimes -- Passengers -- Serpentine -- Reincarnation and you -- Jazz and nature -- And his sextet -- Where I live -- My life -- Aristotle