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Billy Collins
From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and…
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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…
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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…
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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.
From the former US Poet Laureate comes this compilation of more than fifty new poems as well as selections from four previous collections
Billie Collins
A fast-paced, funny play offering a deep-dive into consumer culture: in an age of retail therapy, climate crisis and click and collect - how does our 'stuff' define us?
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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…
Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Billy Collins discusses such topics as discovering his persona; why poetry is so loved by children but often met…
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An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.
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…
These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase the Poet Laureate’s…
An invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew from US poet laureate, Billy Collins
In this moving and playful collection, Collins touches on an array of subjects–love, death, solitude, youth, and aging–delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.
To celebrate Billy Collins’s years as U.S. Poet Laureate, we are pleased to announce this special hardcover edition of one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation…
From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase his trademark generosity, wit, and imaginative play.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2016.
A collection which includes some of Collins’ most anthologized poems, including Introduction to Poetry, Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House, and Advice to Writers .
An inspired collection of new and selected poems from the former US Poet Laureate
Now in paperback comes the landmark collection of new and selected poems by a Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, New York Public Library Literary Lion, and incomparably popular performer of his…
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.
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…
Collecting 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for poetry lovers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure…
To celebrate Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate, we are pleased to announce this special hardcover edition of one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation…
A stunning new collection from the former US Poet Laureate and one of the world’s most popular poets.
A bold and richly imaginative new collection from the former US Poet Laureate
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Billy Collins’s The Afterlife, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Billy Collins’s The History Teacher, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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Pete McLaughlin
Part standup comedy, part painfully revealing self-exploration, this is a tender, heartbreaking, hilarious book of poems about the male condition in the 21st Century.
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Poems once in motion…continue to move their readers. And what an imaginative variety of poetic delights is offered here. -Billy Collins
An anthology that charts the development of this influential journal decade by decade, making clear that although it has close ties to a particular region, it has consistently maintained a…
With selections chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, this compendium gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing from the past year. The collection includes works by such…
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins joins with David Allen Sibley, America’s foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have…
Emily Dickinson
Includes over 400 of Dickinson’s poems, expressing her ideas on love, life, and nature, that were published after her death in 1886.
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A collection of poems, which bring the Spanish Renaissance to life. It includes an introduction and biographies of the poets.
Billie Jean Collins
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
A reference guide and key to all aspects of man’s contact with the menagerie of the Ancient Near East. With ample original illustrations.
Tania Runyan
Is it possible to teach someone how to write a poem? Or does poetry simply come from the heart or from a special talent only some can ever hope to…
How to read a poem. A lot of books want to teach you just that. How is this one different?
Think of it less as an instructional book and more…
Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Joseph Parisi,Stephen Young
The creation of modern poetry is illustrated in this compilation of over 600 letters to and from the editors of Poetry magazine. In fascinating anecdotes and literary gossip, poets offer…
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan’s cult classic novel reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of his death. Introduced by Neil Gaiman.
