Collins, Billy

""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) 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 limmerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the more than 125 new poems of Musical Chairs show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his luminous career"--.

A collection of over fifty poems by American poet Billy Collins that explores aging and mortality.

"Contains more than forty new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom"--Provided by publisher.

"A young boy searching the beach for treasure comes across a sailboat and pushes out to sea. Magically the boat becomes a book, and the little boy finds himself living out its adventure, pirate ship and all, far away in the fantastic world of words"--Dust jacket flap.

Contains seventy-five poems by American poets, selected by the editor as the best of 2005, and includes a brief profile of each featured poet.

A compilation of more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books by American writer Billy Collins.