Enjoying a popularity unheard of for most poets, Billy Collins has had a remarkable late-life surge, aided by NPR exposure and his 2001 and 2002 appointments as the U.S. poet laureate. His style is engaging, conversational, funny, and surprising.
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Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
Bright Wings : An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Questions about Angels
The Art of Drowning
The Apple That Astonished Paris
Picnic, Lightning
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