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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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Poetry

THE RAIN IN PORTUGAL

Billy Collins

Billy Collins's ("America's favorite poet", per The Wall Street Journal) first new book in three years contains more than 40 new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom that have made him one of our most widely read poets.

Collins's last three collections have hit the national bestseller lists, and AIMLESS LOVE debuted at #12 on the New York Times bestseller list. He’s the author of ten collections of poetry, including Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, he was Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006. He lives in Florida.

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Book Published 2016-10-04 by Random House
Book Published 2016-10-04 by Random House

Comments

It is a New York Times bestseller, having hit the October 23rd list.

“…Imaginative thinking gives this collection its richness.... The work also shows a variety of styles…[that] provide both pleasure and a vivid example of how one’s thoughts, when unrestrained, can lead to unexpected destinations.” – The Washington Post

UK: Picador

“Poets on the best-seller list remain as rare as albino deer, but one who does turn up … is Billy Collins, whose . . . THE RAIN IN PORTUGAL, lands at No. 15. . . . In a recent appearance on the Book Review’s podcast, Collins . . . described the title, a play on the rain in Spain, as taking a stand against rhyming verse.”—NY Times

“[THE RAIN IN PORTUGAL] shows [Collins] at his finest…” – Library Journal (starred review)