Will I love Aimless Love?

His poems are always true. Nothing contrived. I feel they speak to me -- to the situation I am in -- even if they are talking about something I don't know.
For example, he has a poem called "Monday" in which we keep returning to the image of poets at their windows watching the world. And he talks about how
"they are at their windows
in every section of the tangerine of earth --
the Chinese poets looking up at the moon,
the American poets gazing out
at the pink and blue ribbons of runrise."
This struck me because I'd… show more.

There’s a reason Billy Collins served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States. His work is known to be both serious and playful, and he is able to take everyday moments and turn them into lessons for living. I always love what he calls “the turn” in his poem—the surprise direction a poem suddenly takes, seemingly departing from its original subject and taking your breath away or leaving you in complete surprise. Aimless Love is a beautiful compilation of fifty new poems and some of the best of four previous books.