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Sailing Alone Around the Room
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems | Billy Collins
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Sailing Alone Around the Room, by Americas 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. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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TheSpineView Love this one! 💜🖌🎨 4y
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#7days7books Day 2
Seven books that left a deep impression on me and changed me.

@CarolynM @mollyrotondo Want to join in?

mollyrotondo Oh wow sure! I‘ve been seeing people post but wasn‘t sure exactly what this was all about 😂 thanks! 5y
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 5y
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I know I just used this poem but, Billy Collins. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #Dog #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

TheSpineView I love just as much the 2nd time!💜💜💜 5y
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TheSpineView 😂😂😂 5y
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TheSpineView 😍😍😍 5y
readinginthedark Wow, that's beautiful. 5y
Graywacke Collins.... love this. 5y
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‘The Death of the #Hat

Once every man wore a hat.
In the ashen newsreels,
the avenues of cities
are broad rivers flowing with hats.

The ballparks swelled
with thousands of strawhats,
brims and bands,
rows of men smoking
and cheering in shirtsleeves.

Hats were the law.
They went without saying.
You noticed a man without a hat in a crowd.

full poem here (the last stanza) 😢https://avoision.com/2005/06/17/the_death_of_the_hat.php
#poetrymatters

Lcsmcat Love this one! 5y
TheSpineView I remember when my dad wore a hat to work every day. Good choice! 😍😍😍 5y
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Jane Austen
Billy Collins
Margaret Atwood
Chris Bohjalian
Oscar Wilde

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The volume that introduced me to Billy Collins‘ poetry, and that I return to again and again. #adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

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A favorite poem about #poetry. #poetrymatters @LazyDays

LazyDays Oh my goodness I love this!😆 6y
Tomigirl44 This is probably my favorite poem of his, although I have almost everything he‘s written and find his poems as refreshing as a spring breeze. 6y
MaGoose Don't have this book of his. I'll need to rectify that, probably by the end of the day.. 6y
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Graywacke I remember this poem from when I read it years ago. 6y
merelybookish This and Marginalia are my favourite Collins poems. 6y
Lcsmcat @Tomigirl44 Have you heard him read? I always hear his poems in his voice now. 😀 6y
Lcsmcat @MaGoose Yes, you need this one. 6y
Lcsmcat @merelybookish Another good one! I think Another Reason I don‘t Keep a Gun in the House is my favorite. Or maybe Litany. It‘s hard to choose! 6y
Lcsmcat @LazyDays I hope it‘s inspired you to check out his work. It‘s mostly available online. 6y
Tomigirl44 @Lcsmcat I‘ve heard him interviewed (on the radio) but I haven‘t heard him read his poetry. And I love Another Reason - esp when I had neighbors with an incessantly barking dog. What‘s the name of the one where he sits down to write a poem & takes everything off & hangs it up? I never realized how fun (and funny) poetry could be until I read Collins 😁 6y
Lcsmcat @Tomigirl44 Do you mean Taking off Emily Dickinson‘s Clothes? I like that one too! Another Reason was my introduction to Collins, sent to me by my sister when I had a neighbor with a barking dog. My girls and I were instant fans and when he did a reading at our library we got tickets and brought every volume of his that we owned to get them signed. 6y
Tomigirl44 Wow - what a memorable experience to meet him as well as hear him read! My poetry books have been packed away for a couple years now while I‘m in limbo - thanks for reminding me how much I miss my poets 😊 6y
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Another Billy Collins poem. #higher #poetrymatters @LazyDays

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Read the summer of 2003

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Unconventional Reader Aesthetic: books stacked in the fire place and a rabbit for a reading buddy.

#bunny #rabbit #shelfie

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vivastory 😂😂😂 7y
GarthRanzz This cracked me up! Thank god I work from home. 7y
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TricksyTails 🤣😂🤣😂 7y
Pamwurtzler 😂😂😀😀 7y
Wife Bitsy, you‘ve done it again! First laugh of the day!😍 7y
Lreads Love it! 😂😍 7y
AlaMich 😂😂😂 7y
LeahBergen Oh, Gray Cat. 🤣🤣 7y
Amanda.T Gray Cat says “I‘m the captain now.” 😂 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks 😻😹😹 7y
shanebeth 😹🧡 7y
RebelReader That‘s fantastic! 🤣🤣😹😹 7y
Reggie 😂😂 7y
MaureenMc 😄👏 7y
Laura317 Gray Cat is definitely the captain of that crew. Poor Bitsy. 😂 7y
Bookish.Heart I love your pets! 😂 7y
Faibka 😂 love it 7y
mabell Poor Bitsy! ❤️😂 7y
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TNbookworm 😹😹😹 7y
Bookzombie 😂 7y
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Bookzombie @LauraBeth 😂😂 I love your posts. 7y
DebinHawaii Oh Bitsy! Way to get revenge on Captain Grey Cat! 🤣 🐶❤️🐱 7y
RohitSawant 😂😂 7y
TricksyTails 😂 This made my day! 🐶♥️😽 7y
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Trying to teach Cleo to appreciate new poetry. I think she‘s a bigger fan of Sylvia Plath though. #dogsoflitsy

TricksyTails 😂 Sweet puppy! 7y
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Ah, Billy Collins. 💙

This is why I love the #readathon. I'd never have thought to add poetry to my TBR if it wasn't for you folks suggesting it at one of the @DeweysReadathon Twitter Chats.

Here's wishing a lifetime of matching book series editions & a lack of bookslumps to all you lovely people. 😊 #teamfriend

How's everyone else's #readathon going? 😃

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Not in my original tbr pile but it's still #nationalpoetrymonth and this will be a good palate cleanser. #readathon @DeweysReadathon

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Look! I found a book with #sail in the title on my shelf. (It's resting on a seaman's trunk that my Dad had redone for me.) ⛵⛵⛵
#lyricalapril @Cinfhen

Cinfhen That trunk is AMAZING 😍I love anything nautical 💙 8y
LaraReads Very cool! 8y
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One of my favorite poets. #sail #lyricalApril @Cinfhen

Cinfhen I love the title,not familiar with the poet. That's what's so great about Litsy...always new discoveries 💙 8y
Broke_Girl_Reads I love Billy Collins! Such simple beautiful verse 💖 8y
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A prized possession, signed at a reading in 2005. #signed #readjanuary

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Part of a poem by Billy Collins for all the #dogsoflitsy 🐶🐩🐕🐶

#litsypoetry365

mcipher Love this poem! 8y
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A little something for the end of the week. ? To date, this is my favorite collection of Collins' poems. "Marginalia" stole my heart years ago. #poetry

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Bought this book secondhand and someone dogeared all the best poems for me! Not something I do myself, but I find myself anticipating the marked poems as I approach them. The previous reader hasn't led me wrong yet. This stanza is the end of "On Turning Ten."

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