| 词条 | Picnic, Lightning |
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| name = Picnic, Lightning | image = Picniclightning.jpg | caption = | author = Billy Collins | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = | series = | genre = Poetry | publisher = University of Pittsburgh Press | pub_date = 1998 | media_type = | pages = | isbn = 978-0-8229-5670-9 | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = The Art of Drowning (1995) | followed_by = Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes (2000) }} 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 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...." References1. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402EFDE153BF93BA25752C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 The Selling of Billy Collins], a November 18, 2001 article from The New York Times {{poetry-stub}} 2 : American poetry collections|1998 books |
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