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Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first new compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections from his four most recent books. No poet writing ...Show more
Aimless LoveNew and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "America's favorite poet."--The Wall Street Journal From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent boo ...Show more
Ballistics by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems that addresses death and love, solitude and aging.
Bright Wings: An illustrated anthology of poems about birds by Billy Collins (Ed), David Allen Sibley (Illustrator)
Category: Poetry
Poet laureate Billy Collins joins David Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the singular muse that has inspired so much poetry since the invention of the form. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, birds have served as a powerful metaphor for beauty, escape ...Show more
Musical Tables by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
"I've grown old- now my own name rings a bell." In each of the short poems in Billy Collins's Musical Tables, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with what he calls the "thrill of mortality" - flashes of profundity amongst the mundane, startling reminders ...Show more
Musical Tables - Poems by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022--LitHub"Whenever I pick up a new ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Category: Fiction
"High, most encouraging tidings"--that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of Sailing Alone Around the Room, a landmark coll ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and selected poems by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing th ...Show more
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins (Professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA)
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Billy Collin's is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been. A writer of immense grace and humanity, Billy Collin's shows how the great forces of history and nature converge o ...Show more
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
Category: Poetry
The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits he's not much of a rhymer - sheds Collins's ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical - 'the dogs of Minneapolis .../ have no idea they're in Minneapolis' - to the e ...Show more