Bill Collins Building With Its Face Blown Off Analysis

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Bill Collins is a very well-known and popular poet. He has written over fifty poems in his career. He was born in New York and later became a professor at a university in New York and other universities. While reading our text, Literature to Go, I found the explanations which the poet provided after the poems to be very fascinating. They provided great insight and perspective on the poets thoughts, the poems meaning and the writing process of his poems
I enjoyed reading one of Collins 2005 poems entitled, Building with Its Face Blown Off. This poem is incredibly descriptive. Collins writes about a bombed out city and a building that has been extensively damaged. The building is described in detail which enables the reader to envision the

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