Poetry 180

A Turning Back to Poetry

Introduction by Billy Collins
Edited by Billy Collins
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Paperback
$18.00 US
5.17"W x 7.97"H x 0.79"D  
On sale Mar 25, 2003 | 352 Pages | 978-0-8129-6887-3
| Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
Selected for Vermont Reads 2013


A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to appeal to students with a selection of poems that are new and contemporary, yet also accessible.

Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for students who are studying, and are interested in, the state of contemporary American poetry. Poetry 180 is utlimately a fascinating new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.

With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.
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Selected for Vermont Reads 2013


A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to appeal to students with a selection of poems that are new and contemporary, yet also accessible.

Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for students who are studying, and are interested in, the state of contemporary American poetry. Poetry 180 is utlimately a fascinating new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.

With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.

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