Billy Collins
American poet and two-time Poet Laureate known for poems that begin with common observation and open into meditation. His bestselling collections including Sailing Alone Around the Room brought new readers to poetry.
Works
- The Apple That Astonished ParisWhimsical poems with accessible humor and imaginative conceits
- Questions About AngelsLight, playful poems on angels, daily life, and poetic curiosity
- The Art of DrowningHumorous poems on mortality and the art of reading memoirs
- Sailing Alone Around the RoomConversational poems on reading, solitude, and personal discovery
- BallisticsPoems on weapons, violence, and human destructive capacity