The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins Pura López Colomé Kirsten Irving

Kirsten Irving

The Illegal Age

in which an oblique beam is thrown across the surface of a picture to expose its textures and overlays

'Truly brilliant'

The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins Pura López Colomé Kirsten IrvingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former U. S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him Americas favorite poet. The Rain in Portugala title that admits hes not much of a rhymersheds Collinss ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death.