The Rain in Portugal
Poems
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…
$22.00
October 17, 2017
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