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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2022."--Title page verso.

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From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a collection of more than 125 small, incisively brilliant poems which, in his own words, ¿begin in Kansas and end in Oz.¿

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Something new from the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author: a collection of more than 125 "small poems, " each a moment or emotion compressed down to its essence."Whenever I open a book of poems, I tend to flip through looking for the small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract expressionist painter if I knew he or she could draw a credible chicken, I trust poets who can go short." --Billy Collins...

A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal "The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the everyday."-The Wall Street JournalWhale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our...

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Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases Billy Collins's deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of America's most celebrated and widely read poets.

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Con la sua poesia a un tempo gentile e arguta, umoristica e commovente, lieve e meditabonda, Billy Collins è stato dopo Robert Frost il primo poeta americano capace di ottenere il consenso della critica e di un vasto numero di lettori. Poeta laureato degli Stati Uniti dal 2001 al 2003, voce nota per le sue letture di poesia alla National Public Radio, insegnante di letteratura nei college americani, Collins conosce le difficoltà che i giovani ...

Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first new compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections from his four most recent books. No poet writing today communicates so directly and effectively, and no living poet has managed to both enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and expand it...

It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of 8 million souls. Since 1992, with the presentation of an excerpt from Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, " the Poetry in Motion program-co-sponsored by MTA Arts & Design and the Poetry Society of America-has brought more than 200 poems, in whole or in part, before the eyes of millions of subw...

A vela, in solitaria intorno alla stanza" rappresenta una curiosa via d'accesso al mondo poetico di Billy Collins. Immaginiamo il protagonista su una barca a vela, alle prese con una crociera in solitaria, ma in un'impresa tutt'altro che epica e pioneristica: anziché per il mare aperto si naviga in una stanza, comodamente arredata, sulla terraferma. Il viaggio diventa l'esplorazione di un mondo qualunque, fatto di cose senza importanza, durant...

WINNER-BEST POETRY-GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST NATIONAL BESTSELLER Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins's verbal gifts are on full display.

A bold and richly imaginative new collection from the former US Poet Laureate

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substan...

From the U.S. Poet Laureate and bestselling author of "Nine Horses" and "Sailing Alone" comes a dazzling collection of poems--his first in three years. High school & older.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"America's favorite poet."-The Wall Street JournalFrom 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 ...

180 More" continues Collins's program in conjunction with the Library of Congress to gather poems by the most exciting poets at work today and make them available to students, teachers, and poetry readers everywhere. High school & older.