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In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room only.

Durante nueve meses, Federico García Lorca vivió en Nueva York, alejado por primera vez de su país, de sus padres y amigos más íntimos. A lo largo de ese período, su poesía cambió radicalmente, oscureciéndose y dejando a un lado el folclorismo andaluz que tanto despreciaron Buñuel y Dalí. El resultado de esa etapa quedó recogido en Poeta en Nueva York, libro publicado cuatro años después de su muerte.

“I will consider a slice of pizza," opens Phillips's poem "Jubilate Civitas." "For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both / exquisite and blessedly cheap." Thus, as throughout this collection, he celebrates a simple pleasure that "in a time of deceit . . . is honest and upright, steadfast and good"; even the busted buttons we press when waiting to cross the street make for elegy in a collection that brings us this poet at his burnished best.