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Collins, whose last three collections have ascended the New York Times best sellers list, is a relative rarity among modern poets; he commands a wide readership and enviable publishers' contracts. This new collection shows him at his finest in poems such as "Greece"—amusing, even-toned, and fully in touch with the implied motifs of antiquity, time, art, and mortality as he calls his craft "a megaphone ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More