The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems Craig Foster "I want 100 dogs

"I want 100 dogs

Elspeth needs a monster

until she learns the price of choosing wrong

and first chair clarinetist

set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems Craig Foster "I want 100 dogsPlayfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, Americas two term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present books title, Collinss poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address only those in my own time zonebut also