Trouble with Poetry

by Professor Billy Collins

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1299023169
  • ISBN13 9781299023161
  • Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 13 March 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 April 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Random House
  • Format eBook
  • Language English