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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) and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The neat phrase “picnic, lightning” is a metaphor for transience and happenstance written by Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lolita (1955). Awaiting a murder trial, Humbert begins a memoir, freely admitting moral decline and obsession with the fourteen-year-old Dolores Haze, aka Lolita.
1 gen 2001 · Picnic, Lightning. Billy Collins. 4.27. 4,348 ratings288 reviews. Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize. Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal.
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In “Picnic, Lightning,” Billy Collins explores the complexities of human connection through the lens of a seemingly simple picnic. The poem begins with a description of a typical picnic scene, complete with a checkered blanket and a basket of food.
Picnic, Lightning --one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet.
Picnic, Lightning. Billy Collins. Issue 145, Winter 1997. My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident. (picnic, lightning) when I was three ... —Lolita. It is possible to be struck by a meteor. or a single-engine plane. while reading in a chair at home.
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and...
