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THE TROUBLE WITH POETRY AND OTHER POEMS
Billy Collins
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Description for THE TROUBLE WITH POETRY AND OTHER POEMS
Paperback. An invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew from US poet laureate, Billy Collins Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint of world-weariness or cynicism, he fearlessly addresses the reader as friend and intimate -- and comrade, inviting them to square up to the various collective crises of the bald ape in the 21st century. Collins remains the only poet who can write about the next-to-nothing of our lives, the little boredoms, habits ... Read more
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Publisher
PICADOR
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
130g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330441698
SKU
V9780330441698
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About Billy Collins
Billy Collins is the author of six books of poetry including, most recently, Nine Horses. Collins's poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks and a variety of publications in the UK and the US, including Harper's and the New Yorker, and a selection of poems, Taking Off Emily's Dickinson's Clothes, was published in 2000. Poet Laureate of the United States for ... Read more
Reviews for THE TROUBLE WITH POETRY AND OTHER POEMS
"'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy 'I'd follow this man's mind anywhere' Michael Donaghy 'Billy Collins's poems describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides' John Updike"