Aimless Love
New and Selected Poems
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 books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins’s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard on every page, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Atlantic, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing…
Billy Collins is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including Sailing Alone Around the Room, Aimless Love and, most recently, Water, Water. He served two terms as United State Poet Laureate and is a former Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and 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 an Australian Shepherd mix named Jeannine. He lives in Winter Park, Florida, with his wife Suzannah.
Dog Show
Billy Collins
Water, Water
Billy Collins
Musical Tables
Billy Collins
Whale Day
Billy Collins
The Rain in Portugal
Billy Collins
The Best of Poetry in Motion
Alice Quinn
Haiku in English
Edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, Allan Burns; Introduction by Billy Collins
Aimless Love
Billy Collins
Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011
Philip Zaleski, Editor
The Poets Laureate Anthology
Elizabeth Hun Schmidt;Billy Collins
Ballistics
Billy Collins
Golden Age
Edith Grossman;Billy Collins;Edith Grossman