Picnic, Lightning
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| Author(s) | Billy Collins |
| Country |  United States |
| Genre(s) | Poetry |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Publication date | 1998 |
| ISBN | 978-0822956709 |
| Preceded by | The Art of Drowning (1995) |
| Followed by | Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes (2000) |
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Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998. His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies)[1] and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The title poem is a reference to Humbert Humbert's mundane description of his mother's death as described by him in the second chapter of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."
[edit] References
- ^ The Selling of Billy Collins, a November 18, 2001 article from The New York Times
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