TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,Billy
TI  - Picnic, lightning
SN  - 0822940663 (acidfree paper)
AV  - PS3553.O47478 P52 1998
U1  - 811/.54 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Poetry
KW  - marcgt
N1  - 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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