Billy
Collins is one of those individuals rare in America – a poet who is successful
and popular. The author of 10 collections of poetry, Collins was poet laureate
of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and of New York State from 2004 to 2006.
And this past summer, he substituted for Garrison Keillor on National Public
Radio’s program “The Writer’s Almanac.”
Today,
he’s publishing Aimless
Love: New and Selected Poems. It’s everything a Billy Collins collection
of poetry should be, and more: funny, droll, surprising, penetrating, self-deprecating,
unexpected. And stories; Collins is always often stories in his poetry.
To
continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
Top photograph by Karen Arnold via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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