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03207aam a2200373 i 4500 001 01E0AE36010C11EEB5B5CDCD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230602010835 008 220103s2022 msu 001 0deng 010 $a 2021062380 020 $a 1496840666 020 $a 9781496840660 020 $a 1496840674 020 $a 9781496840677 035 $a (OCoLC)1282009026 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NYP $d CDX $d YDX $d YUS $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3553 O47478 Z46 2022 245 00 $a Conversations with Billy Collins / $c edited by John Cusatis. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2022] 300 $a xxi, 210 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Literary conversations series 504 $a Includes index. 520 $a "Billy Collins "puts the 'fun' back in profundity," says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called "hospitable" poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins was fifty-seven when his poetry began gathering considerable international attention. Conversations with Billy Collins chronicles the poet's career beginning with his 1998 interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, which exponentially expanded his readership, three years prior to his being named United States Poet Laureate. Other interviewers range from George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review, to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor to a Presbyterian pastor, a physics professor, and a class of AP English Literature students. Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Collins discusses such topics as discovering his persona, that consistently affable voice that narrates his often wildly imaginative poems; why poetry is so loved by children but often met with anxiety by high school students; and his experience composing a poem to be recited during a joint session of Congress on the first anniversary of 9/11, a tragedy that occurred during his tenure as poet laureate. He also explores his love of jazz, his distaste for gratuitously difficult poetry and autobiographical poems, and his beguiling invention of a mock poetic form: the paradelle. Irreverent, incisive, and deeply life-affirming-like his twelve volumes of poetry-these interviews, gathered for the first time in one volume, will edify and entertain readers in the way his sold-out readings have done for the past quarter century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Collins, Billy $v Interviews. 650 0 $a Poets, American $y 20th century $v Interviews. 650 0 $a Poets, American $y 21st century $v Interviews. 700 1 $a Cusatis, John, $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Conversations with billy collins $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 $z 9781496840691 $w (DLC) 2021062381 830 0 $a Literary conversations series. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011739.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=01E0AE36010C11EEB5B5CDCD2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search