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Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Sailing Alone Around the Room , by America#146;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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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375755195
ISBN-13
9780375755194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2316345

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and Selected Poems
Author
Billy Collins
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
5 oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.O47478
Reviews
"What Collins does best is turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinous moment." -The New Yorker "It is difficult not to be charmed by Collins, and that in itself is a remarkable literary accomplishment." -The New York Review of Books "A brilliant comic sally...a wonderful, sly, and moving collection." -San Francisco Chronicle "[Collins] takes the mundane thing and shows you its mystery. And he takes the mysterious and strips it naked." -The Washington Post, "What Collins does best is turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinous moment." - The New Yorker "It is difficult not to be charmed by Collins, and that in itself is a remarkable literary accomplishment." - The New York Review of Books "A brilliant comic sally...a wonderful, sly, and moving collection." - San Francisco Chronicle "[Collins] takes the mundane thing and shows you its mystery. And he takes the mysterious and strips it naked." - The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
99-052861
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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by dhE1YUZSShu@Del...Mar 29, 2010
Sailing Alone with Billy Collins
Sailing Alone with Billy Collins There is not a poem in this collection With the title "Sailing Alone Around the Room," Which pretty much sums up the state of modern poetry And at the same time is the kind of thing you'd expect From the likes of Billy Collins. He is too popular to be considered classical And too classical to be very popular And the critics aren't sure what to make of him. I discovered him, though I did not plant my flag on his head, On A Prairie Home Companion, reading lines That made me laugh and cry at the same time, Something I usually do not do except when chopping onions And watching Rocky and Bullwinkle or maybe Underdog. If you are only going to read a single collection of poems Written during my lifetime, this is the one. Unless I get ambitious and write my own.Read full review
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by bluesdaddyoApr 09, 2008
Brilliant
On the recommendation of Don Miller (Blue Like Jazz, To Own a Dragon, et al), I purchased this book. Very well written, accessible poetry. Scripted portraits gaze benignly from the pages, and impish jests hide just behind the third semi-colon to the left, jumping out with a giggle when least expected.

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