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DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Includes five additional poems only on the digital download. "Billy Collins puts the 'fun' back in 'profundity.' "
--Alice Fulton From your two-term Poet Laureate of america Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and particular poems in 12 years. Aimless Love combines new poems with choices from four past books - Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Deceased. Collins's unmistakable speech, which includes plain conversation with imaginative shock, is clearly noticed with every word, reminding us how he has were able to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly extend its audience. His work is presented in top literary periodicals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Atlantic, and he offers out reading venues all across the country. Showing up regularly in THE VERY BEST American Poetry series, his poems charm to visitors and live audiences all over and also have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns frolicsome, ironic, and serious, Collins's poetry catches the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired think about. In the poet's own words, he dreams that his poems "begin in Kansas and end in Oz." Touching on the designs of love, reduction, happiness, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of the "poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan elegance" (The New Yorker).
