Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Name: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780375755194

by Billy Collins

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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.

Publisher:: Random House Trade
ISBN:: 9780375755194
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 192
Authors:: Billy Collins
Published Date:: 2002-09-17
Language:: English

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Who was your "gateway poet," the poet whose first book or poem made you want to write?

So I caved in, call it “peer pressure,” and when Bode offered the next class, we read Billy Collins’s book, Sailing Alone Around the Room. Those poems were accessible and often humorous. After the first class, I said to myself, I can write poetry. This was a watershed moment in my writing life. Like many beginning poets, I wrote my first poems modeled after poems from that book, and then I evolved and took classes and the rest is history.

— John Milkereit, author of Rotating Equipment Engineer is Never Finished

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About Billy Collins

Billy Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. Born in New York City, he is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York. His 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 Poetry Foundation's inaugural Mark Twain Award in 2004 and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.

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