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Ballistics : poems / Billy Collins.

by Collins, Billy.

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Random House, c2008.

American poetry.

9781400064915 (alk. paper)

1400064910 (alk. paper)

xiii, 112 p. ; 22 cm.

Brightly colored boats upturned on the banks of the Charles -- Searching -- High -- The four-moon planet -- Evasive maneuvers -- August -- The poems of others -- Aubade -- No things -- The first night -- January in Paris -- Ballistics -- Pornography -- Greek and Roman statuary -- Quiet -- Scenes of hell -- Hippos on holiday -- Carpe diem -- Lost -- Dublin -- New Year's Day -- The day Lassie died -- Tension -- The golden years -- Vermont, early November -- The effort -- The lamps unlit -- China -- Looking forward -- (detail) -- Le Chien -- Addendum -- On the death of a next-door neighbor -- Separation -- Adage -- The flight of the statues -- Passivity -- Ornithography -- Baby listening -- Bathtub families -- Despair -- The idea of natural history at Key West -- The fish -- A dog on his master -- The great American poem -- What love does -- Divorce -- Liu Yung -- This little piggy went to market -- Old man eating alone in a Chinese restaurant -- The breather -- Oh, my God! -- The mortal coil -- The future -- Envoy.

The former U.S. poet laureate and best-selling author of Nine Horses and Around the Room presents a new compilation of his acclaimed poems, some of which have never before been published.

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