John Deming in Cold Front Mag has discussed Collinss concern for those reading his poems because the transmission of poem to head takes place always elsewhere and in silence, in the mysterious space where poems liveCollins lets us access this place with alarming graciousness, and the openness of his voice probably helps account for his popularity. Poet-critic Richard Howard has said of Collins: He has a remarkably American voicethat one recognizes immediately as being of the moment and yet has real validity besides, reaching very far into what verse can do. Collins has described himself as reader conscious: I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who Im talking to, and I want to make sure I dont talk too fast, or too glibly
So if you could choose, what shows would you guest-star on
The teenager wrapped up against the cold in a black quilted jacket and dark jeans and would have looked like any other teenager
I have a Chesterfield bookmark with Perry Como on one side and a woman on the other side (I forget who she is)
If you got to see a 70 mm print of this excellent comic-western, you know that it's an immensely clever film, directed more like a live stage play than Tarantino's more specifically cinematic work
