Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins returns with a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.” The Rain in Portugal sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. It amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of American poetry.
Event Description:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins returns with a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.” The Rain in Portugal sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. It amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of American poetry.Event Media:_Suzannah-Gilman.jpg)
