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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
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Billy Collins
This selected volume presents 20 new poems and draws on four of Collins previous books, THE APPLE THAT ASTONISHED PARIS; QUESTIONS ABOUT ANGELS; THE BEST CIGARETTE; and PICNIC, LIGHTNING. Collins was named the 2001-2002 United States Poet Laureate. This collection was named a Notable Book by the New York Times in 2001.
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Picnic, Lightning
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Poems on everything from the F volume of an encyclopedia to the Victoria's Secret catalog, from the rhythms of jazz to the rhythms of chopping parsley make up this book. Often humorous, Collins's poems also take on poets such as Auden and Dickinson.
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Nine Horses: Poems
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This volume from the U.S. Poet Laureate includes "Litany" and "Writing in the Afterlife," poems Billy Collins has made famous through his public readings. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
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In this collection, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins cleanly expresses the beauty he sees in the rhythms of the mundane. He writes of the simple acts of daily life--sipping coffee in a hotel restaurant, staring out the window, sitting outside on a lovely June day--and the complex emotions, thoughts, and histories that lurk just beneath the ...
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Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
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Billy Collins (Editor)
Collecting 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, "Poetry 180" is the perfect anthology for poetry lovers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure to read.
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Poetry Speaks to Children
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Elise Paschen (Editor), Dominique Raccah (Editor), Billy Collins (Editor)
With over 90 poems of all kinds from a wide variety of people, including Roald Dahl, Ogden Nash, Carl Sandburg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Langston Hughes, and Sonia Sanchez, this poetry picture-book anthology is packed with different moods, experiences both funny and sad, and a multitude of illustrations. "Okay, Brown Girl, Okay" by James Berry and ...
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The Art of Drowning
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Collins' lovely poems 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.
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Questions about Angels: Poems
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Originally published in 1991 as part of the National Poetry Series (selected by Edward Hirsch), this book of poems shows Collins thinking about the writers and artists who have shaped him, the people he's loved, and even the dead, who "are always looking down on us...through the glass-bottom boats of heaven."
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The Apple That Astonished Paris
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Billy Collins strikes at the deepest concerns of the human heart and mind. His metaphysical wit and cosmic puzzlement, expressed always in a clean, direct, unpretentious idiom, will touch every reader who is fascinated by the play of a truly original imagination and a disarming way of seeing the world.
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Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space
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Billy Collins, Bill Murray (Introduction by)
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room only. Performed by the author at ...
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
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Billy Collins (Editor)
"180 More" continues Collins's program in conjunction with the Library of Congress to gather poems by the most exciting poets at work today and make them available to students, teachers, and poetry readers everywhere. High school & older.
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The Best American Poetry
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Billy Collins (Editor), David Lehman (Editor)
One of the most popular poets since Robert Frost, former Poet Laureate Billy Collins guest edits the 2006 edition of the lauded annual anthology of contemporary American poetry.
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Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
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Billy Collins
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The Maverick Poets: An Anthology
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Steve Kowit
As an alternative to the pervasive style of late 20th century verse, with its debilitating preference for the tepid, mannered, and opaque, Gorilla Press presents 40 maverick poets writing in the mother tongue. Work by Frank Bidart, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Wanda Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Ronald Koertge, Dorianne Laux, Sharon ...
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The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance
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Edith Grossman (Translator), Billy Collins (Introduction by)
The Spanish Renaissance--a period of glory that endured from the late 15th century through the 17th century--comes to life in 40 of its greatest poems collected in this remarkable new translation, rendered with passionate fervor and a stylistic brilliance.
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Daddy's Little Boy
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Billy Collins, Maggie Kneen (Illustrator)
Written by Billy Collins in 1950 as a companion song to the hit "Daddy's Little Girl," composed by Bobby Burke and Horace Gerlach, this song is the heart of this picture book featuring illustrations of a daddy bear and his little cub. Includes lyrics and music. Full color.
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Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners: The Official Biography
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Andrew Collins, Billy Bragg (Foreword by)
When legendary U.S. protest singer Woody Guthrie, the man who was spiritual guru to Bob Dylan, died in 1967, he left behind a legacy of song lyrics which to this day have never been heard. When, in 1997, his daughter Nora decided these words should finally be made public, the contenders to sing them included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Dylan ...
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Questions about Angels
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Billy Collins
Over the past decade, Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. To celebrate his years as U.S. Poet Laureate, here is a special, limited edition hardcover of the book that helped establish and secure his reputation.
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Tom Thomson in Purgatory
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Troy A Jollimore, Billy Collins (Foreword by)
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The Best Cigarette
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Billy Collins
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The Subway Pictures
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Peter Peter (Photographer), Billy Collins (Introduction by)
In The Subway Pictures, Peter Peter shares his extraordinary images of life on the move, capturing “ordinary” New Yorkers in a remarkable give-and-take with their public surroundings. As Billy Collins writes in his Foreword, “Each of these images is a visual report from underground, the testimony of an optical Virgil bringing ...
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Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems
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Kurt Brown (Editor), Harold Schechter (Editor), Billy Collins (Preface by)
An utterly delightful collection of responses to poems written across the centuries, these modern poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.
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Apple Astonish Paris 2 (C
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Collins Billy, Billy Collins
In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins's
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The Best American Poetry 2006
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Billy Collins (Editor), David Lehman (Editor)
"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests."-- From Billy Collins's introduction "The Best American Poetry" series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems ...
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En (Compass): The Poetry Caravan Anthology
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Usha Akella (Editor), Billy Collins (Foreword by)
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