180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

English

ISBN: 0812972961

EAN: 9780812972962

Category: Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 04/06/2005

Synopsis: Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collinss poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the originalPoetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetrywas a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of todays poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voicescomic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places. With poems by Robert Bly Carol Ann Duffy Eamon Grennan Mark Halliday Jane Kenyon David Kirby Thomas Lux Donna Masini W. S. Merwin Paul Muldoon Carol Muske-Dukes Vijay Seshadri Naomi Shihab Nye Gerald Stern Ron Padgett Linda Pastan Victoria Redel Franz Wright Robert Wrigley and many more

Awards: Quill Awards – null 

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180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.88 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 10.41 oz

Pages: 400