A MAJOR MINOR POET: Billy Collins isn't just funny.(poet laureate) From: Commonweal | Date: January 11, 2002| Author: Alleva, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2002 Commonweal Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Billy Collins being named poet laureate was good news to me, yet I think the first words that ran through my head, after hearing of the appointment, were, "They've actually had the guts to honor someone who writes light verse? Ogden Nash should have been so lucky!"

Like a lot of first reactions, it was wrong. But, like all first reactions, it had its reasons.

Light verse jingles along within neatly hedged stanzas. It's the interplay between the poet's fantast...

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