Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover

" 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"

"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

Billy Collins has published six collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at Sarah Lawrence College and was recently appointed named the U.S. Poet Laureate.