Description
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean boards with a bump to the bottom edge, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the retail price on the front flap, creases on the back and mild edge 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.
