LoginNine Horses: Poems
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In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate and author of the bestselling collection Sailing Alone Around the Room, attempts to find beauty in simplicity, but ends up achieving the simply banal. Some poems, such as "Rooms" and "Obituaries," in which readers are given freedom to draw their own conclusions, are memorable, but the language in Nine Horses has little music and thoughts are plainly stated. Animals (mostly mice and little birds) populate this sentimental journey, and they are nearly always personified, resulting in poems that sometimes read like the verse equivalent of a Thom
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release date: 14 October 2003
ISBN-10 : 0375755209 | ISBN-13: 9780375755200
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Release date: 14 October 2003
ISBN-10 : 0375755209 | ISBN-13: 9780375755200
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