Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, has compiled a substantial selection of poems from his previous collections, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning, in Sailing Alone Around the Room in addition to brand-new poetry. In these poems, Collins demonstrates his mastery of the type of unique literary devices that have enthralled and thrilled a great number of people. They might start with irony and finish with lyrical metamorphosis; they can, and often do, start with the mundane and end in the infinite. They can start with inquiry and end in despair. Billy Collins, who has a distinct voice that is both straightforward and melodious, has expanded the readership of American poetry and enhanced it.