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CONSOLATION by BILLY COLLINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW AGREEABLE IT IS NOT TO BE TOURING ITALY THIS SUMMER
Last Line: DOWN A ROAD THAT WILL NEVER LEAD TO ROME, NOT EVEN BOLOGNA
Subject(s): PLAY;

Poem Sources:

A FINE EXCESS, CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AT PLAY.
  GANN, KIRBY AND KRISTIN HERBERT (EDS.)
  (2001)
 
POETRY, V158#4, JULY /91.
  (1991)
 
THE ART OF DROWNING.
  COLLINS, BILLY
  (1995)
 



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