{"product_id":"protected-for-a-purpose-book-lalita-walker-9781098042738","title":"Protected for a Purpose","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the former United States Poet Laureate and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAimless Love, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022--\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract painter more if I knew he or she could draw a credible chicken, I have faith in poets who can go short.--Billy Collins\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou can spot a Billy Collins poem immediately. The amiable voice, the light touch, the sudden turn at the end. He puts the 'fun' back in profundity, says poet Alice Fulton. In his own words, his poems tend to begin in Kansas and end in Oz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow America's favorite poet (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins's recognizable wit and wisdom, the poems of \u003ci\u003eMusical Tables\u003c\/i\u003e show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e3:00 AM\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnly my hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eis asleep, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut it's a start.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371575775505,"sku":"CIN1098042735VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51236569907473,"sku":"NIN9781098042738","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1098042735.jpg?v=1751238776","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/protected-for-a-purpose-buch-lalita-walker-9781098042738","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}