180 More - by Billy Collins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"180 More" continues Collins's program in conjunction with the Library of Congress to gather poems by the most exciting poets at work today and make them available to students, teachers, and poetry readers everywhere. High school & older.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.<br></b><br>Inspired by Billy Collins's poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original <i>Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry</i> was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In <i>180 More</i>, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today's poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices-comic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places. <p/><b>With poems by<br></b>Robert Bly<br>Carol Ann Duffy<br>Eamon Grennan<br>Mark Halliday <br>Jane Kenyon <br>David Kirby<br>Thomas Lux<br>Donna Masini <br>W. S. Merwin <br>Paul Muldoon<br>Carol Muske-Dukes<br>Vijay Seshadri <br>Naomi Shihab Nye<br>Gerald Stern <br>Ron Padgett <br>Linda Pastan<br>Victoria Redel<br>Franz Wright<br>Robert Wrigley<br>and many more<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Billy Collins </b>is the author of twelve collections of poetry including <i>The 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</i>, and <i>Picnic, Lightning</i>. He is also the editor of <i>Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day</i>, and <i>Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds</i>. 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.
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