{"product_id":"9780812982688","title":"The Rain in Portugal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER • From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e to call him “America’s favorite poet.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Rain in Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e—a title that admits he’s not much of a rhymer—sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical—“the dogs of Minneapolis . . . \/ have no idea they’re in Minneapolis”—to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, Collins here contemplates a weather vane, a still life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, \u003ci\u003eThe Rain in Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Rain in Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Nothing in Billy Collins’s twelfth book . . . is exactly what readers might expect, and that’s the charm of this collection.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This new collection shows [Collins] at his finest. . . . Certain to please his large readership and a good place for readers new to Collins to begin.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Disarmingly playful and wistfully candid.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007867338992,"sku":"9780812982688","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812982688_p0.jpg?v=1763742637","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812982688","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}