Of course, you'll never win a Pulitzer Prize with these poems, a college president once told Billy Collins. To date, the former poet laureate of the United States hasn't snagged a Pulitzer, but he has been credited with attracting a whole new audience to poetry. An admiring New York Times critic thinks that this good deed was achieved at least somewhat by trickery: "Luring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr. Collins leads them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey from the familiar to quirky to unexpected territory, sometimes tender, often profound." The Trouble with Poetry is a major collection of poetry by the author of Nine Horses and Sailing Alone Around the Room.