Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
 

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers.... (read more)

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It is wonderful. My favorites are "Marginalia", "Books", "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes", "Osso Bucco", "Fishing On the Susquehanna in July", "Winter Syntax", "the Death of Allegory" and "Dharma"
Collins' poetry is like a deep, funny, enlightening conversation with a fascinating person.

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Well, I completed Billy Collins' Sailing Alone Around the Room too. And like the...

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