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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780375755194
ISBN: 0375755195
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 17, 2002
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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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.
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This is a nice collection of poems by a modern poet. It made the bestseller list and I suppose for readers of poetry this is a good collection of poems. Instead of critiquing style and syntax, I will instead say that I truly found these poems to be a strong emotional outpouring by the author. Billy Collins' writing is to the point and about those things that even not poetry lovers can relate with. After reading this book I was left with the sensation that I actually had just conversed with Collins ... Read More
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Billy Collins is simply the best, and I think this is some of the best of Billy Collins. I treasure my fraying copy and recently bought two more as gifts.
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Perhaps, what may best describe the poetry of Billy Collins is "Thought-Provoking Subtle Humor." Throughout much of his work Collins intertwines a hint of humor with a profound message about our daily existence, dealing with everything from junk mail to our inner voices to the spirits of the dead.
Collins, a teacher by day, poet by night, offers his readers visions and images from the classroom. At times, we are the student, as in "Snow Days," "First Reader" and "On Turning Ten" and at other ... Read More
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Billy Collins is able to make a picture out of just about any combination of words. Each poem in this collection seems to begin in one place and land in another, turning corners with each line, and leaving the reader wondering where it is going until the very end. A very satisfying adventure in poetry filled with humor, compassion, and wonder. "Sailing Alone Around the Room" is also full of insight into one of America's greatest contemporary poets. I would highly recommend this to anyone who study's poetry ... Read More
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The US Library of Congress has had 'Poet Laureate Consultants' since 1986, supplanting the older position of 'Consultant' which had existed since 1937, a New Deal legacy. Quite a few of America's finest poets have been thus honored -- Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Randall Jarrell, Robert Frost -- though several equally great have been neglected and, as one might expect, a number of Laureates might be generously described as "inoffensive."
Billy Collins was America's Poet Laureate in 2001 ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780375755194
ISBN: 0375755195
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 17, 2002
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks