Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry

Recent American Poet Laureates have been very focused on bringing
poetry to the people. Billy Collins, appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 2001, created a list of
180 poems that were immediately accessible, reader friendly, designed to be read, one for each day of the
school year, at high schools across the country. This book is a compilation of those poems. Like Garrison
Keillor's book, Good Poems, this book is excellent for people who think poetry is too removed from
every day life. Recommended.