The Rain in Portugal

Poems

Author Billy Collins

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.”

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 elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, Collins here contemplates a weather vane, a still life…

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October 17, 2017

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Billy Collins is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, the most recent being Water, Water. He is a former Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). He served as United States Poet Laureate and as New York State Poet. He is a New York Public Library “Literary Lion” and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently “between dogs,” his most recent one being an Australian Shepherd mix named Jeannine. He lives in Winter Park, Florida.

The Rain in Portugal

Poems

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