Musical Tables – Billy Collins
(F/F)

Description

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Musical Tables by Billy Collins in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 2022 Random House. First Printing with full number line.

Fine hardcover with spotless boards, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear and strong corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.

Fine un-clipped dust jacket with no wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Billy Collins has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love—all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry’s famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins’s recognizable wit and wisdom, the poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career.

Ships promptly in a manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap. Thin volume.