{"product_id":"aimless-love-isbn-9780812982671","title":"Aimless Love","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“America’s favorite poet.”\u003ci\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAimless Love\u003c\/i\u003e combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent books—\u003ci\u003eNine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Horoscopes for the Dead. \u003c\/i\u003eCollins’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 greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace” \u003ci\u003e(The New Yorker).\u003c\/i\u003e“America’s favorite poet.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Billy Collins] is able, with precious few words, to make me cry. Or laugh out loud. He is a remarkable artist. To have such power in such an abbreviated form is deeply inspiring.”\u003cb\u003e—J. J. Abrams, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His work is poignant, straightforward, usually funny and imaginative, also nuanced and surprising. It bears repeated reading and reading aloud.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Collins has earned almost rock-star status. . . . He knows how to write layered, subtly witty poems that anyone can understand and appreciate—even those who don’t normally like poetry. . . . The Collins in these pages is distinctive, evocative, and knows how to make the genre fresh and relevant.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Collins’s new poems contain everything you've come to expect from a Billy Collins poem. They stand solidly on even ground, chiseled and unbreakable. Their phrasing is elegant, the humor is alive, and the speaker continues to stroll at his own pace through the plainness of American life.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Collins’s] poetry presents simple observations, which create a shared experience between Collins and his readers, while further revealing how he takes life’s everyday humdrum experiences and makes them vibrant.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Times Leader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Former poet laureate and reader favorite Collins, the maestro of the running-brook line and the clever pivot, celebrates the resonance and absurdity of what might be called the poet’s attention-surfeit disorder. . . . But Collins’s droll wit is often a diversionary tactic, so that when he strikes you with the hard edge of his darker visions, you reel.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stellar jumping-off point . . . a joyride through all layers of his approach from 2002 to the present, which should not only please his current fans, but inspire many others to dive into Mr. Collins’s work, headfirst.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBilly Collins \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of twelve collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eThe Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePicnic, Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds\u003c\/i\u003e. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.\u003cb\u003eEnvoy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGo, little book,\u003cbr\u003eout of this house and into the world,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecarriage made of paper rolling toward town\u003cbr\u003ebearing a single passenger\u003cbr\u003ebeyond the reach of this jittery pen\u003cbr\u003eand far from the desk and the nosy gooseneck lamp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is time to decamp,\u003cbr\u003eput on a jacket and venture outside,\u003cbr\u003etime to be regarded by other eyes,\u003cbr\u003ebound to be held in foreign hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo off you go, infants of the brain,\u003cbr\u003ewith a wave and some bits of fatherly advice:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003estay out as late as you like,\u003cbr\u003edon’t bother to call or write,\u003cbr\u003eand talk to as many strangers as you can.New York Times bestseller","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304716128485,"sku":"NP9780812982671","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780812982671.jpg?v=1767721159","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/aimless-love-isbn-9780812982671","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}