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Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins.

By: Series: Pitt poetry seriesPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998.Description: 103 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0822940663 (acidfree paper)
  • 0822956705 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3553.O47478 P52 1998
Contents:
A portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal -- Pt. 1. 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, lightening. Pt. 2. 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. Pt. 3. Victoria's secret -- Musee des Beaux Art revisited -- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Duck/Rabbit -- Egypt -- Home again -- Lines lost among the trees -- The many faces of jazz -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes. Pt. 4. The night house -- The death of the hat -- The list of ancient pastimes -- Passengers -- Serpentine -- Reincarnation and you -- Jazz and nature -- And his sextet -- Where I live -- My life -- Aristotle.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3553 .O47478 P52 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000664275

Poems.

A portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal -- Pt. 1. 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, lightening. Pt. 2. 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. Pt. 3. Victoria's secret -- Musee des Beaux Art revisited -- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Duck/Rabbit -- Egypt -- Home again -- Lines lost among the trees -- The many faces of jazz -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes. Pt. 4. The night house -- The death of the hat -- The list of ancient pastimes -- Passengers -- Serpentine -- Reincarnation and you -- Jazz and nature -- And his sextet -- Where I live -- My life -- Aristotle.

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