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Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins.
| Author/creator | Collins, Billy |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1998. |
| Description | 103 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series | Pitt poetry series Pitt poetry series. ^A86836 |
| Contents | Portrait of the reader with a bowl of cereal -- Fishing the Susquehanna in July 5 -- To stranger in a distant country hundreds of years from now -- Chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" -- Afternoon with Irish cows -- Marginalia -- What learned today -- Journal -- Some days -- Silence -- Picnic, lightning -- In the room of a thousand miles -- Morning -- Bonsai -- Splitting wood -- Shoveling snow with Buddha -- Go back to the house for a book -- After the storm -- Snow -- Moon -- Looking west -- This much I do remember -- Japan -- Victoria's Secret -- Musée des beaux art revisited -- Lines composed 3000 miles away from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Duck/rabbit -- Egypt -- Home again -- Lines lost among trees -- The many faces of jazz -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- The night house -- The death of the hat -- The list of ancient pastimes -- Passengers -- Serpentine -- Reincarnation and you -- Jazz and nature -- And his sextet -- Where live -- My life -- Aristotle -- Acknowledgments. |
| LCCN | 97033955 |
| ISBN | 0822940663 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0822956705 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |