Nine Horses(1st Edition) Poems by BillyCollins Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50381-8, ISBN: 0-375-50381-1
"Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the ..."
Sailing Alone Around the Room(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by BillyCollins Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50380-1, ISBN: 0-375-50380-3
""High, most encouraging tidings"--that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of Sailing Alone Around the Room, a landmark collection of new and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, New York Public Library "Literary Lion," and incomparably p ..."
Questions About Angels(1st Edition) Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by BillyCollins Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5698-3, ISBN: 0-8229-5698-5
"Billy Collins has a knack for making the familiar exotic and the arcane instantly accessible. His 1991 collection, Questions About Angels, is a loving and often amused search for "the infinite / permutations of the alphabet's small and capital letters." This phrase comes from an ode to his first literary experience--and needless to say, Collins is more honest than most of us might be. Though he would later discover "frightening Heathcl ..."
Picnic, Lightning(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by BillyCollins Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5670-9, ISBN: 0-8229-5670-5
"In these playful, conversational poems, Billy Collins immerses us in the minutiae of a life--cow viewing, parsley chopping, "buzzing around on espresso"--and restores a sense of wonder. In a voice half confessional, half avuncular, he takes us by the hand and shares his deepest secrets. Whether shoveling snow with the Buddha, releasing Emily Dickinson from her corsets, spoofing Auden and Wordsworth, or putting words in the mouths ..."
The Art Of Drowning(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by BillyCollins Paperback, 95 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5567-2, ISBN: 0-8229-5567-9
"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 IRONIS ..."
"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 ..."
"Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry. In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series edito ..."
Musical Tables Poems (Hardcover) by BillyCollins Hardcover, 177 Pages, Published 2022 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-399-58978-2, ISBN: 0-399-58978-3
"Also by Billy Collins Sailing Alone Around the Room Nine Horses The Trouble with Poetry Ballistics Horoscopes for the Dead Aimless Love The Rain in Portugal Whale Day Edited by Billy Collins Bright Wings Poetry 180 180 More Musical ..."
Whale Day And Other Poems by BillyCollins Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2020 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-399-58975-1, ISBN: 0-399-58975-9
"A collection of all-new poetry from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and "America's favorite poet" (The Wall Street Journal).Billy Collins's thirteenth collection, and first in four years, contains more than fifty new poems that showcase the playfulness, wit, and wisdom that have made him one of our most celebrated and widely read poets. This collection covers many themes and moods, including Collins's insights on the wonders of ..."
Nine Horses (Paperback) by BillyCollins Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-41304-6, ISBN: 0-330-41304-X
"While Billy Collins' poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, they might end anywhere - and readers might lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one they had left moments before."
180 More(1st Edition) Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BillyCollins Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7296-2, ISBN: 0-8129-7296-1
"Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collinsâs poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of todayâs ..."
Voyage(1st Edition) by Professor BillyCollins, Karen Romagna Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2014 by Bunker Hill Publishing Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-154-0, ISBN: 1-59373-154-X
"This book is sure to capture the imaginations of young readers. A charmingly illustrated poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins takes us on a journey that features magical transformations and makes a nautical adventure out of the act of reading. The interplay between the pictures and the poetry dramatizes how reading can transport us from our own familiar world into the fantastic world of a book. The boy in the boat stands for ..."
Aimless Love New and Selected Poems by BillyCollins Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-0799-2, ISBN: 1-5290-0799-2
Aimless Love New and Selected Poems by BillyCollins Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-5250-4, ISBN: 1-4472-5250-0
"Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first new compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections from his four most recent books. No poet writing today communicates so directly and effectively, and no living poet has managed to both enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and ex ..."
Aimless Love New and Selected Poems by BillyCollins 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-8465-1, ISBN: 0-8129-8465-X
"It was designed in 1996 by Zuzana Licko, who created it for digital typesetting as
an interpretation of the sixteenth-century typeface Bodoni. Filosofia, an example
of Licko's unusual font designs, has classical proportions with a strongvertical ..."
Conversation Pieces Poems That Talk to Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Kurt Brown, Harold Schechter, BillyCollins Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26545-6, ISBN: 0-307-26545-5
"This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses to other poems in a dialogue conducted across space and time. Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's coy mistress might have answered his appeal. Raleigh's famous reply to Marlowe's "The Passiona ..."
She Was Just Seventeen by BillyCollins Paperback, 36 Pages, Published 2006 by Modern Haiku Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9741894-2-0, ISBN: 0-9741894-2-1
"A fine letter press edition of haiku by Billy Collins, former United States Poet Laureate, edited by Lee Gurga, editor of Modern Haiku Press."
Questions About Angels(2nd Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by BillyCollins Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4211-5, ISBN: 0-8229-4211-9
"Billy Collins has a knack for making the familiar exotic and the arcane instantly accessible. His 1991 collection, Questions About Angels, is a loving and often amused search for "the infinite / permutations of the alphabet's small and capital letters." This phrase comes from an ode to his first literary experience--and needless to say, Collins is more honest than most of us might be. Though he would later discover "frightening ..."
The Best of Poetry in Motion(1st Edition) Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses by Alice Quinn, BillyCollins Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-60937-0, ISBN: 0-393-60937-5
"“Poems once in motion…continue to move their readers. And what an imaginative variety of poetic delights is offered here.”―Billy Collins It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of 8 million souls. Since 1992, with the presentation of an excerpt from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” the Poetry in Motion program―co-sponsored b ..."