Musical Tables by Billy Collins
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 belonging To combat the geographical dislocation

To combat the geographical dislocation

these are poems for our changing times

Maria Stadnicka’s poems are clusters of consciousness

supermarket shopping and the major adventures of sharpening a pencil and chopping carrots

Musical Tables by Billy Collins<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> belonging To combat the geographical dislocation"I've grown old now my own namerings a bell." In each of the short poems in Billy Collins's Musical Tables, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with what he calls the "thrill of mortality" flashes of profundity amongst the mundane, startling reminders of the wonder of being alive. Through the brevity of these poems, Collins' knack for coaxing the poetry out of the everyday becomes ever more refined.