{"product_id":"trouble-with-poetry-book-billy-collins-9780375503825","title":"The Trouble with Poetry","description":"Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49522549817617,"sku":"CIN037550382XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548810289425,"sku":"GOR004278119","price":9.39,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49996426510609,"sku":"CIN037550382XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50124987662609,"sku":"CIN037550382XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/037550382X.jpg?v=1750813651","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/trouble-with-poetry-buch-billy-collins-9780375503825","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}