{"product_id":"collins-billy-trouble-wipb","title":"Collins, Billy: Trouble with Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eRandom House, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 01, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike the present book's title, Collins's poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, \"Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address \/ only those in my own time zone\"-but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: \"The birds are in their trees, \/ the toast is in the toaster, \/ and the poets are at their windows. \/ They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth-the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, \/ the American poets gazing out \/ at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn't have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most \"serious\" poetry: \"By now, it should go without saying \/ that what the oven is to the baker \/ and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner \/ so the window is to the poet.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing-themes familiar to Collins's fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins's poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679358955543,"sku":"9780375755217","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_9ce9dd7a-b4d8-4ce7-bb29-92ba054fcf1d.jpg?v=1697662088","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/collins-billy-trouble-wipb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}