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The end of boredom

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Poet Billy Collins is prominent for his poems and his ability to combine high critical praise with a wide popular following. He shares his experience about his professional life as a professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York and as a poet laureate of the United States and discusses about his poetry collections that include Nine Horse, Sailing Alone Around the Room.

Author: Collins, Billy
Publisher: University of Missouri at Kansas City
Publication Name: New Letters
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0146-4930
Year: 2004
Collins, Billy

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William Metts, American poet

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William Metts was a legend amongst the artistic types at Kent State in mid 50s known for his writings in students' magazine and was greatly admired for his poems. The different aspects of his life that portrayed him as a bravest poet is discussed.

Author: Zimmer, Paul
Publisher: University of Missouri at Kansas City
Publication Name: New Letters
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0146-4930
Year: 2004
Metts, William

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Real words

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The author examines the emotional and psychological impact of words in creating one's reality, using his recent diagnosis of having idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood coagulation disorder, as an illustration.

Author: Zimmer, Paul
Publisher: University of Missouri at Kansas City
Publication Name: New Letters
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0146-4930
Year: 2003
Psychological aspects, Personal narratives, Life, Life (Philosophy), Word (Linguistics), Words, Reality

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Subjects list: United States, Criticism and interpretation, Poets
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