Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: poems, horses, nine
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-10-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375755209
ISBN-13: 9780375755200

In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America’s Poet Laureate for 2001–2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz on the radio are the seemingly ordinary activities whose hidden textures are revealed by Collins’s poetic eye. With clarity, precision, and enviable wit, Collins transforms those moments we too often take for granted into brilliant feats of creative imagination. Nine

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: poems, poetry, trouble
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0375755217
ISBN-13: 9780375755217

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 th

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: poems, ballistics
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812975618
ISBN-13: 9780812975611

In this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: series, poetry, pitt, lightning, picnic
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 1998-01-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0822956705
ISBN-13: 9780822956709

This sixth collection of poems by Billy Collins touches on a wide range of subjects from jazz to death, from weather to sex. His language is contoured, self-aware and full of juxtapositions.

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: poetry, turning
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-03-25
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0812968875
ISBN-13: 9780812968873

A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure.A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible no

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: poems, ballistics
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-09-09
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1400064910
ISBN-13: 9781400064915

A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance.Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches on a greater array of subjects–love, death, solitude, youth, and aging–delving deeper than ever before. Ballistics comes at the reader full force with moving and p

Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: day, poems, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-03-29
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0812972961
ISBN-13: 9780812972962

Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy,