Trouble with Poetry Penology Faced with the possibility of

Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one

Concerns about attention span

"There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on

stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime

Trouble with Poetry Penology Faced with the possibility ofPlayfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present book's title, Collins's 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 zone" but