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Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours. John Updike proclaims his poems consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Picnic, Lightning --one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply the real thing.
Now in paperback comes the landmark collection of new and selected poems by a Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, New York Public Library Literary Lion, and incomparably popular performer of his own good works. Sailing Alone Around the Room , by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both
Billy Collins is the author of twelve prior collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal , Aimless Love , Horoscopes for the Dead , Ballistics , The Trouble with Poetry , Nine Horses , Sailing Alone Around the Room , Questions About Angels , The Art of Drowning , and Picnic, Lightning . He i
