180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

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