The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems Craig Foster When Jack Knight takes off

When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte

and first chair clarinetist

Elspeth needs a monster

until she learns the price of choosing wrong

Tender and gently humorous

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems Craig Foster When Jack Knight takes offPlayfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, Americas two term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present books title, Collinss 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 zonebut also