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Overview
WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins’s verbal gifts are on full display.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780812975628 |
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Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 03/20/2012 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 128 |
Sales rank: | 414,266 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author

Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.
Hometown:
Somers, New YorkDate of Birth:
March 22, 1941Place of Birth:
New York, New YorkEducation:
B.A., Holy Cross College, 1963; Ph.D. in Romantic poetry, University of California at Riverside, 1971Read an Excerpt