| Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Collins, Billy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375755195 ISBN-13: 9780375755194 Publisher: Random House Trade
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2002 Annotation: 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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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.3" W x 8.54" L (0.31 lbs) 192 pages |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 10/04/2002 pg. 147 New York Times 10/27/2002 pg. 28 Kliatt 03/01/2003 pg. 38 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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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