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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, is an interesting piece which depicts the life of William Bonney, a life sucked into a world of violence and becomes one of the most famous men in the history of our nation. The author uses many poems, novels, articles, and much of his own work to show the life of Billy the Kid. After reading this work, I found it to be very difficult to follow. This book is put together in a very strange way. The author takes different poems and stories and just puts them all together in no real chronological way. Many of the stories and poems in my opinion were very difficult to understand. I found myself reading a poem two or three times just to get a main idea of what is going on. The main reason I found it to be hard to follow certain poems, was the fact that the author creates certain mental images in the readers head; however, these mental images are very hard to see. One poem that I found very interesting and powerful, was about Billy the kid al