Billy Collins Best Poems - April 2024

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812972961
• ASIN: 0812972961
• ISBN: 9780812972962
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

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 with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard on every page, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812982673
• ASIN: 0812982673
• ISBN: 0812982673
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry

A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure.A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible no... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812968875
• ASIN: 0812968875
• ISBN: 0812968875
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375755195
• ASIN: 0375755195
• ISBN: 0375755195
• Brand: Collins, Billy
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 (The Best Spiritual Writing Series)

"A trove of well-wrought, luminous, soul-bracing gifts." -Thomas Lynch (on the 2010 edition) With selection chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing to appear in American publications during the past year. The collection offers an opportunity to read intimate and thought-provoking work, ranging from poetry to short fiction to memoir to essay, by some of the nation's most esteemed writers, including Rick Bass, Philip Yancey, Terry Teachout, Robert D. Kaplan, and many others. As Phyllis Tickle said of las... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143118676
• ASIN: 0143118676
• ISBN: 0143118676
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

How to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem "Introduction to Poetry"

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 as an invitation. For the reader new to poetry, this guide will open your senses to the combined craft and magic known as "poems". For the well versed, if you will, this book might make you fall in love again. How to Read a Poem uses images like the mouse, the hive, the switch (from the Billy Collins poem "Introduction to Poetry")—to guide readers into new ways of understanding poems. Excellent teaching tool. Anthology included.

• ASIN: B00IU8WR9G
• ASIN: B00IU8WR9G
• Manufacturer: TS Poetry Press

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375755217
• ASIN: 0375755217
• ISBN: 0375755217
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy

Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare.Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy received the Spirituality & Practice Book Award for 50 Best Spiritual Books in 2017 by Spirituality and Practice Website.

• ASIN: 1614293317
• ASIN: 1614293317
• ISBN: 9781614293316
• Brand: Wisdom Books
• Manufacturer: Wisdom Publications

The Rain in Portugal: Poems

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.”   The Rain in Portugal—a title that admits he’s not much of a rhymer—sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical—“the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they’re in Minneapolis”—to the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679644067
• ASIN: 0679644067
• ISBN: 0679644067
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

Questions About Angels: Poems (Pitt Poetry)

• ASIN: 0822956985
• ASIN: 0822956985
• ISBN: 0822956985
• Brand: Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press

Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook (Hardcover)

Runny Babbit's topsy-turvy world is brought to life through witty and wondrous wordplay and brilliant drawings, conceived and completed before the author's

• UPC: 3379399

How to Read a Poem : Based on the Billy Collins Poem Introduction to Poetry: (Field Guide Series)

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 as an invitation. For the

• UPC: 52288577

Best Loved Poems of American People

Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

• UPC: 461703
• Rating: 4.667

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

This enthralling collection contains more than 400 poems that were published between 1886 (the year of Emily Dickinson's death) and 1900 which express her concepts of life and death, of love and

• UPC: 54040071

Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and Selected Poems

Offers a collection of witty, emotional, and direct poems by the popular and critically acclaimed poet, including selections from his four previous collections and new works such as "Man Listening to a Disc," about

• UPC: 1876336
• Rating: 4.462

PLAYLIST: THE VERY BEST OF BILLY OCEAN

Playlist: The Very Best Of Billy

• UPC: 24309785
• Rating: 5.0

Nine Horses : Poems

A best-selling collection of poems from the U.S. poet laureate and author of Sailing Alone Around the Room offers insightful reflections on the mystery and beauty found in everyday life. Reprint. 60,000 first

• UPC: 2222448
• Rating: 4.5

The 100 Best Poems of All Time

An anthology of poetry from around the world includes works by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Poe, both Brownings, Dickinson, Eliot, Neruda, Plath, and Angelou, as well as poems and songs that have entered popular

• UPC: 1071285
• Rating: 4.0

The Celebrity 411 : Spotlight on Billy Ray Cyrus, Including His Best Selling Albums Such as Some Gave All, Storm in the Heartland, Trail O

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get a glimpse at the life of singer, songwriter and actor, Billy Ray Cyrus. Read

• UPC: 875022740

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's favorite poems are collected here, selected by her daughter, including the work of Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, Yeats, and Emily Dickinson, among others. 250,000 first

• UPC: 43151806
• Rating: 4.25

The Best American Poetry 2006 by Billy Collins

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Best American Poetry 2006 by Collins, Billy

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The Best American Poetry 2006 (ExLib) by Billy Collins

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Best American Poetry 2006 by Collins, Billy

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The Best American Poetry 2006 (Best American Poetry) by Billy Collins

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The Best of Poetry in Motion by Alice Quinn (editor), Billy Collins (writer o...

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• Category: Fiction
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The Best American Poetry 2006 by Billy Collins (2006, Paperback)

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Best American Poetry 2006 by Collins, Billy

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The Best American Poetry 2006 by Billy Collins

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
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The Best American Poetry 2006 (ExLib) by Billy Collins

• UPC: 193134079224
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 3 USD