Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems.

First Edition of Billy Collins' Sailing Alone Around the Room; Signed by Him

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems.

COLLINS, Billy .

Item Number: 115696

New York: Random House, 2001.

First edition of this “wonderful, sly, and moving collection” (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Billy Collins 2007.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison Saltzman. Jacket art by John Singer Sargent.

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite.

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