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1			This link (http://www.bigsnap.com/g-nyt01.html) takes you to a review by Cynthia Magriel Wetzler for The New York Times. How do Collins's poems and their humor lure you, and do they lead you to somewhere deeper and more serious?
2			Billy Collins wrote this essay (http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/collins.htm) about American poetry. Do his works in Responding to Literature contain American idioms, and how will these idioms affect the prospect of these poems becoming timeless and universal?