{"product_id":"9781035022489-musical-tables","title":"Musical Tables","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the former United States Poet Laureate and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAimless Love\u003c\/i\u003e comes a collection of more than 125 small, incisively brilliant poems which, in his own words, “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I’ve grown old–\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003enow my own name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003erings a bell.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn each of the short poems in Billy Collins’s \u003ci\u003eMusical Tables\u003c\/i\u003e, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with what he calls the “thrill of mortality” – flashes of profundity amongst the mundane, startling reminders of the wonder of being alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the brevity of these poems, Collins’ knack for coaxing the poetry out of the everyday becomes ever more refined. Whether reflecting on mornings spent in the thicket of Los Angeles traffic, or turning over clichés on the tongue until old metaphors become new again, \u003ci\u003eMusical Tables\u003c\/i\u003e is Billy Collins at his most meditative: brief, and all the more brilliant for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'America’s favourite poet' – \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41063048773729,"sku":"9781035022489","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29638481.jpg?v=1725625713","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035022489-musical-tables","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}