Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected PoemsSailing 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. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may

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. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 09/17/2002
ISBN: 9780375755194
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.30w x 0.42d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 10/04/2002 pg. 147
New York Times 10/27/2002 pg. 28
Kliatt 03/01/2003 pg. 38