Whale Day by Billie Collins Terrance Hayes written in Irish

written in Irish

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

and more recently

the masterful ninth book from Hirshfield is an account of how “We did not-enough” to save the world

—Sudeep Sen

Whale Day by Billie Collins Terrance Hayes written in Irish'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He's a one off, an American treasure' Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and