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Introduction to Poetry

Billy Collins - Introduction to Poetry

“I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light...” This animated video by Milos features Billy Collins narrating his poem “Introduction to Poetry” fromThe Apple That Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1996). Collins’s new poetry collection, The Rain in Portugal (Random House, 2016), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Random House
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Billy Collins
2016
November/December 2016
The Apple That Astonished Paris
1996
University of Arkansas Press
The Rain in Portugal
Introduction to Poetry

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