{"product_id":"conversations-with-billy-collins-9781496840677","title":"Conversations with Billy Collins","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. An English professor for five decades, Collins was fifty-seven when his poetry began gathering considerable international attention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eConversations with Billy Collins\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the poet's career beginning with his 1998 interview with Terry Gross on \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eParis Revi\u003c\/i\u003ee\u003ci\u003ew\u003c\/i\u003e, to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor to a Presbyterian pastor, a physics professor, and a class of AP English Literature students. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5311221\"\u003eJohn Cusatis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496840677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496840674\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT014000\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO020000\"\u003eInterviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Cusatis\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Charleston School of the Arts. He is author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Colum McCann\u003c\/i\u003e, the first critical study of the Irish-born National Book Award winner; editor of \u003ci\u003ePostwar Literature, 1945-1970 \u003c\/i\u003eand three volumes of the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e; and coeditor (with Earl G. Ingersoll) of \u003ci\u003eConversations with John Banville\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45795356180655,"sku":"9781496840677","price":46.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_34f4246b-0fed-45c6-b621-43e2ae244166.jpg?v=1755597934","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/products\/conversations-with-billy-collins-9781496840677","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}