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Praise for Billy Collins's poetry
"Billy Collins writes lovely poems—lovely in a way almost
nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consis-
tently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe
all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."
—John Updike
"Billy Collins is an American original—a metaphysical poet
with a funny bone and a sly, questioning intelligence. He
is an ironist of the void, and his poems—witty, playful,
and beautifully turned—bump up against the deepest hu-
man mysteries."—Edward Hirsch
"Billy Collins s poems are graceful, ironic, smart, and full
of feeling. Sometimes wrongfully described as a defense
against feeling, irony is, in fact, a deeply mixed feeling. In
poems as good as Collins s, it is a mirror in which we see
ourselves not by reflecting in lazy categories, but perhaps
as experience sees us, and certainly as we imagine our-
selves."—William Matthews
"Nobody else today writes quite like Collins, and few...
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Fülszöveg
Praise for Billy Collins's poetry
"Billy Collins writes lovely poems—lovely in a way almost
nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consis-
tently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe
all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."
—John Updike
"Billy Collins is an American original—a metaphysical poet
with a funny bone and a sly, questioning intelligence. He
is an ironist of the void, and his poems—witty, playful,
and beautifully turned—bump up against the deepest hu-
man mysteries."—Edward Hirsch
"Billy Collins s poems are graceful, ironic, smart, and full
of feeling. Sometimes wrongfully described as a defense
against feeling, irony is, in fact, a deeply mixed feeling. In
poems as good as Collins s, it is a mirror in which we see
ourselves not by reflecting in lazy categories, but perhaps
as experience sees us, and certainly as we imagine our-
selves."—William Matthews
"Nobody else today writes quite like Collins, and few
indeed write any better."—X. J. Kennedy
"Mr. Collins is funny without being silly, moving without
being silly, and brainy without being silly. If only he were
silly, we should know how to place' him. But he is merely—
merely!—funny, moving, brainy. That will have to do."
—Richard Howard
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