{"id":45712,"date":"2025-01-13T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/aimless-love-new-and-selected-poems\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:56:44","slug":"aimless-love-new-and-selected-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/aimless-love-new-and-selected-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPrice: $18.00<\/del> - $16.74<\/span>
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\n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s favorite poet.\u201d\u2014The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent books\u2014Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins\u2019s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard on every page, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Atlantic, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing regularly in The Best American Poetry series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins\u2019s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet\u2019s own words, he hopes that his poems \u201cbegin in Kansas and end in Oz.\u201d Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this \u201cpoet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace\u201d (The New Yorker).<\/p>\n

Envoy
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Go, little book,
out of this house and into the world,
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carriage made of paper rolling toward town
bearing a single passenger
beyond the reach of this jittery pen
and far from the desk and the nosy gooseneck lamp.
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It is time to decamp,
put on a jacket and venture outside,
time to be regarded by other eyes,
bound to be held in foreign hands.
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So off you go, infants of the brain,
with a wave and some bits of fatherly advice:
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stay out as late as you like,
don\u2019t bother to call or write,
and talk to as many strangers as you can.<\/p>\n

Praise for Aimless Love
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\u201c[Billy Collins] is able, with precious few words, to make me cry. Or laugh out loud. He is a remarkable artist. To have such power in such an abbreviated form is deeply inspiring.\u201d\u2014J. J. Abrams, The New York Times Book Review
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\u201cHis work is poignant, straightforward, usually funny and imaginative, also nuanced and surprising. It bears repeated reading and reading aloud.\u201d\u2014The Plain Dealer
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\u201cCollins has earned almost rock-star status. . . . He knows how to write layered, subtly witty poems that anyone can understand and appreciate\u2014even those who don\u2019t normally like poetry. . . . The Collins in these pages is distinctive, evocative, and knows how to make the genre fresh and relevant.\u201d\u2014The Christian Science Monitor
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\u201cCollins\u2019s new poems contain everything you’ve come to expect from a Billy Collins poem. They stand solidly on even ground, chiseled and unbreakable. Their phrasing is elegant, the humor is alive, and the speaker continues to stroll at his own pace through the plainness of American life.\u201d\u2014The Daily Beast
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\u201c[Collins\u2019s] poetry presents simple observations, which create a shared experience between Collins and his readers, while further revealing how he takes life\u2019s everyday humdrum experiences and makes them vibrant.\u201d\u2014The Times Leader <\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e Random House; First Edition (October 21, 2014)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 261 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0812982673
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0812982671
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.72 x 0.8 x 8.24 inches <\/p>\n

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Customers enjoy the poetry in this collection. They find it honest, amusing, and thought-provoking. The poems convey an uplifting perspective and reveal a deeper revelatory reality. Readers describe the book as wonderful, worth buying, and a great compilation of old and new works. They appreciate the simplicity and accessibility of the writing. Overall, customers find the poetry charming and delightful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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