Random House
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
288 pages ISBN: 0679644059 EAN: 9780679644057 Kindle: B00CK8CLJ8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
“Billy Collins puts the ‘fun’ back in ‘profundity.’
”—Alice 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 books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with
Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead.
Collins’s 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, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday
life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder.
In the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in
Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss,
joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work
of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace”
(The New Yorker).
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