Nine Horses (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Billy Collins
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Writing, Imagination, Pianos or pianists, Houses, mansions, or manors, Weather, Rain, Allusions
Fans of Billy Collins will be glad to see Nine Horses, his seventh collection of poems. As he did in the previous volume Sailing Alone Around the Room (2001), Collins includes here many examples of the kinds of poems which have established his enormous popularity with American readers—quiet, humorous examinations of the world of the mundane. Just as in the earlier volume, he also includes a few poems that seem to move into a more personal territory.
A recurrent theme of Collins’s work is his celebration of the sensual pleasures of the ordinary world: the...
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