The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in the toaster, / and the poets are at their windows. / They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine…
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March 13, 2007Billy 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