A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal
“The
poems are marked by [Collins’s] characteristic humor and arise out of
small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the
everyday.”—The Wall Street Journal
Whale Day
brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of
the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our
country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that
leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar,
common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with
an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana,
meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive
to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets.
