Billy Collins: Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
Combining dry wit with artistic depth, Billy Collins shares a project in which several of his poems were turned into delightful animated films in a collaboration with the Sundance Channel. Five of them are included in this wonderfully entertaining and moving talk. Don’t miss the hilarious final poem.
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ABOUT Billy Collins
“Accessibility is not a word often associated with great poetry. Yet Billy Collins has managed to create a legacy from what he calls being poetically ‘hospitable’.
Preferring lyrical simplicity to abstruse intellectualism, Billy combines humility and depth of perception, undercutting light and digestible topics with dark and at times biting humour.
While he approaches his work with a healthy sense of self-deprecation, calling his poems ‘domestic’ and ‘middle class’, John Taylor has said of Collins: “Rarely has anyone written poems that appear so transparent on the surface yet become so ambiguous, thought-provoking, or simply wise once the reader has peered into the depths.
In 2001 he was named U.S. Poet Laureate, a title he kept until 2003. Billy lives in Somers, New York, and is an English Professor at City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 40 years.”
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