[New-Poetry] Billy Collins in extremis

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/16/2006 4:19:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
grahamd at ripon.edu writes:

"The way he expresses his ideas seem to say that he had a thought.   Then he 
took it to the extreme and talked about it in his  poems."



You should send some of these excerpts to Billy Collins...I'm sure he could  
make
a very funny poem out of them. David Clewell once wrote an amusing poem  about
reading a student's marginalia penned in copy of book of poems by William  
Kloefkorn (sp?). 
Finnegan
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