Random House
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
288 pages ISBN: 0679644059 EAN: 9780679644057 Kindle: B00CK8CLJ8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
βBilly Collins puts the βfunβ back in βprofundity.β ββAlice Fulton
From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous booksβNine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collinsβs 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 regularly in The Best American Poetry series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collinsβs poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poetβs own words, he hopes that his poems βbegin in Kansas and end in Oz.β Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this βpoet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan graceβ (The New Yorker).
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