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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Breaking Down Billy Collins

Annotation of Billy Collins "Introduction to Poetry":

I ask them to take a poem           
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

(Obviously about a poem of his own, he asks or expects the people he allows to read it to handle it in a certain way, like a color slide)

Trees of Men

I have always been fascinated with trees. Ever since I was young, I loved to climb and play in them. I would observe them and ma...