Aimless Love - Billy Collins
new and selected poems
KORTE INHOUD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years.
'Aimless Love' combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent 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. By turns playfull, ironic, and serious, his poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In his own words, Collins 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)
"[Collins's] is able, with precious few words, to m...
'From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years.
'Aimless Love' combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent 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. By turns playfull, ironic, and serious, his poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In his own words, Collins 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)
"[Collins's] is able, with precious few words, to m...
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