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Horoscopes for the dead : poems / Billy Collins.

by Collins, Billy.

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Random House, c2011.

9781400064922 (hc. : acid-free paper)

1400064929 (hc. : acid-free paper)

9780812975628 (2012 Random House trade pbk. ed.)

xiii, 106 p. ; 22 cm.

United States poet laureate, 2001-2003.

Grave -- Straightener -- Palermo -- Flaneur -- Snag -- Memento mori -- As usual -- Thieves -- Guest -- Gold -- Good news -- Genesis -- Horoscopes for the dead -- Hell -- Simple arithmetic -- Her -- Florida -- Question about birds -- New globe -- Girl -- Watercoloring -- At the home of the Baroness of Pembrokeshire -- Poem on the 300th anniversary of the Trinity School -- Chairs that no one sits in -- Memorizing "The sun rising" by John Donne -- Two creatures -- Vocation -- My unborn children -- Hangover -- Table talk -- Delivery -- Symbol -- Winter in Utah -- What she said -- Feedback -- Drawing you from memory -- Riverside, CA -- Cemetery ride -- Thank-you notes -- Lakeside -- Revision -- Night and day -- My hero -- Meatball department -- Silhouette -- Bread and butter -- Roses -- After I heard you were gone -- On reading a program note on Aaron Copland -- Poetry workshop held in a former cigar factory in Key West -- Returning the pencil to its tray.

In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.

American poetry.

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