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Poetry

Paladin

(28,254 posts) Sun Nov 17, 2013, 12:11 PM Nov 2013

Optimistic sign on today's NYT Best Seller List

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins' new collection, "Aimless Love" clocks in at #12. Just in time for my family to start asking me what I want for Christmas.....

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Optimistic sign on today's NYT Best Seller List (Original Post) Paladin Nov 2013 OP

Billy Collins is justly popular...n/t CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2013 #1

He had me with "The Lanyard" Paladin Nov 2013 #2

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,595 posts)

1. Billy Collins is justly popular...n/t

Reply to Paladin (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 12:30 PM

Nov 2013

Paladin

(28,254 posts)

2. He had me with "The Lanyard"

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 12:54 PM

Nov 2013

I watched him recite that poem on TV, and emotionally wipe out an entire auditorium of people. I believe that recitation is available on YouTube. If there's ever been a better poem written about the debt we owe our mothers, I haven't come across it.

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