Person · Open Library
- Works
- 62
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature
- Bartlett's poems for occasions
- Dog Show
- Metropolis Found
- Bright Wings An Illustrated Anthology Of Poems About Birds
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1951-01-30
adult contemporaryaorart popbritisheasy listeningpop
Discography
- Face Value1981
- Hello, I Must Be Going!1982
- No Jacket Required1985
- …But Seriously1989
- Remembers the Past1992
- Both Sides1993
- Dance Into the Light1996
- Testify2002
- Going Back2010
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,018
- Total plays
- 35,902
Tags
spoken wordpoetryUSA
Billy Collins is an ex-poet laureate of the United States, who writes about simple everyday moments and things in a poignant way. He began "Poetry 180" during his term as poet-laureate to bring the enjoyment of reading poetry back into high school. His most recent collection of poetry is called The Trouble with Poetry. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Collins">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,398x
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,630x
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Quotes
- “But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”
- “I love the sound of the bone against the plateand the fortress-like look of itlying before me in a moat of risotto,the meat soft as the leg of an angelwho has lived a purely airborne existence.And best of all, the secret marrow,the invaded privacy of the animalprized out with a knife and wallowed downwith cold, exhilarating wine.”
- “But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.”
- “You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and — somehow — the wine.”
- “This is the beginning.Almost anything can happen.This is where you findthe creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land,the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page.Think of an egg, the letter A,a woman ironing on a bare stageas the heavy curtain rises.This is the very beginning.”
- “The complexity of women's undergarments in nineteenth-century America is not to be waved off, and I proceeded like a polar explorer through clips, clasps, and moorings, catches, straps, and whalebone stays, sailing toward the iceberg of her nakedness.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Collins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- scholar of English
- Employer
- City University of New York
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- English studies
- Official website
- www.bestcigarette.us
- Image
- Billy Collins.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1941-03-22
- Commons category
- Billy Collins
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
Sources (6)
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