Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

Billy Collins

Billy Collins is a past US Poet Laureate and this is his first collection of poems published in the UK. He muses on the big subjects which affect us all - and a wryness of tone, mingled with a serious outlook, combine to produce poems of rare poignancy.

Extract

I see all of us reading ourselves away
from ourselves, straining in circles of light
to find more light until the line of words
become a trail of crumbs that we follow
across a page of fresh snow.

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