Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

From Barnes & NobleNo poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal as successfully as 2001-2003 U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. From four earlier collections, Collins offers some of his best, most memorable works.




John UpdikeBilly 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.


New York TimesLuring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr. Collins leads them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey from the familiar or quirky to unexpected territory, sometimes tender, often profound.