{"product_id":"the-rain-in-portugal","title":"Rain in Portugal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase his trademark generosity, wit, and imaginative play.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rain in Portugal - \u003c\/i\u003ea 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 . . . \/ have no idea they're in Minneapolis' - to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, here Collins contemplates a weathervane, a still-life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, \u003ci\u003eThe Rain in Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32135497154643,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781509834259_1f0bfe5f-d2a0-4398-b5e4-dac5def97cca.jpg?v=1768313741","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-rain-in-portugal","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}