Horoscopes for the Dead: Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems

Billy Collins (born in New York City) served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and is one of the best-selling and most widely read American poets of his generation. His poems are celebrated for their conversational accessibility, wit, and the way they draw the ordinary into lyric contemplation. He taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York for many years. His major collections include The Apple That Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1988), Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001), and Aimless Love (Random House, 2013). He received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Poetry, the New York State Poet Laureate designation, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award.