Musical Tables by Billy Collins
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 Jorie Graham ear and imagination

ear and imagination

What more can one hope for as a beacon in the cultural scrum we find ourselves

Or does it hold the promise of something else

the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room

and commitment to poetic innovation

Musical Tables by Billy Collins<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> Jorie Graham ear and imagination"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.