Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems

Authors: Collins, Billy
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: POE005010, POE003000, LIT014000
ISBN: 9780679604501, Related ISBNs: 0679604502, 0812975626, 1400064929, 9780679604501, 9780812975628
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 128,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS
 
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Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins’s verbal gifts are on full display.

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