The Rain in Portugal. Poems

NEW YORK TIMES 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 The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet."   The Rain in Portugal-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 .