Art Of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series)

FROM BACK OF BOOK COVER: "PRAISE FOR BILLY COLLINS'S POETRY: 'BILLY COLLINS WRITES LOVELY POEMS--LOVELY IN A WAY ALMOST NOBODY'S SINCE ROETHKE'S ARE. LIMPID, GENTLY AND CONSISTENTLY STARTLING, MORE SERIOUS THAN THEY SEEM, THEY DESCRIBE ALL THE WORLDS THAT ARE AND WERE AND SOME OTHERS BESIDES.'...JOHN UPDIKE. 'BILLY COLLINS IS AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL--A METAPHYSICAL POET WITH A FUNNY BONE AND A SLY, QUESTIONING INTELLIGENCE. HE IS AN IRONIST OF THE VOID, AND HIS POEMS--WITTY, PLAYFUL, AND BEAUTIFULLY TURNED--BUMP UP AGAINST THE DEEPEST HUMAN MYSTERIES.'--EDWARD HIRSCH"