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The Rain in Portugal
Billy Collins
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Description for The Rain in Portugal
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 224 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
The New York Times Bestseller 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. 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 elegiac in ... Read more
The New York Times Bestseller 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. 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 elegiac in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509834259
SKU
V9781509834259
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About Billy Collins
Billy Collins has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.
Reviews for The Rain in Portugal
The most popular poet in America
Bruce Weber
New York Times
Poets on the best-seller list remain as rare as albino deer, but one who does turn up...is Billy Collins
Gregory Cowles
New York Times
...Imaginative thinking gives this collection its richness.... The work also shows a variety of styles...[that] provide both pleasure and ... Read more
Bruce Weber
New York Times
Poets on the best-seller list remain as rare as albino deer, but one who does turn up...is Billy Collins
Gregory Cowles
New York Times
...Imaginative thinking gives this collection its richness.... The work also shows a variety of styles...[that] provide both pleasure and ... Read more