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Also by Billy Collins:

Aimless Love, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Ballistics, September 2008
Hardcover
Poetry on Record, June 2006
Audio CD
The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems, October 2005
Hardcover

AIMLESS LOVE
By: Billy Collins

New and Selected Poems

Random House
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 0679644059
EAN: 9780679644057
Kindle: B00CK8CLJ8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry

“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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