Picnic, Lightning
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Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins
, published in 1998
. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins
, published in 1998
. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins
, published in 1998
. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)The Selling of Billy Collins, a November 18, 2001 article from The New York Times and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The title poem is a reference to Humbert Humbert's mundane description of his mother's death as described by him in the second chapter of Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
. "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, published in 1998
1998 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago .* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas....
. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, published in 1998
1998 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago .* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas....
. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, published in 1998
1998 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago .* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas....
. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)The Selling of Billy Collins, a November 18, 2001 article from The New York Times and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The title poem is a reference to Humbert Humbert's mundane description of his mother's death as described by him in the second chapter of Lolita
Lolita
Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...
by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
. "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."