William A. Collins is een Amerikaanse dichter die gevierd wordt om zijn toegankelijke maar toch diepgaande benadering van verzen. Zijn werk duikt vaak in de gewone aspecten van het dagelijks leven en vindt onverwachte diepgang en humor in alledaagse onderwerpen, waardoor de schoonheid en intrige van de wereld om ons heen worden onthuld. Collins' stijl wordt gekenmerkt door zijn helderheid, beknoptheid en zachte humor, wat hem vestigt als een geliefde en gerespecteerde stem in de hedendaagse Amerikaanse poëzie.
Joy and wonder permeate over sixty new poems, where the beauty and irony of daily life are explored. Billy Collins emphasizes that great poetry starts with clarity and culminates in mystery, presenting moments that resonate deeply, from a cat by the pool to an astronaut reading Dickinson. His simple yet melodic voice invites readers to pause and appreciate the ordinary, revealing the sublime hidden within. Esteemed by major publications, Collins is celebrated as one of America's beloved poets.
Featuring over 125 concise and impactful poems, this collection takes readers on a journey from Kansas to Oz, reflecting the author's unique perspective and poetic voice. The work showcases his ability to capture profound insights in a compact form, blending themes of nostalgia, imagination, and the human experience. As a former U.S. Poet Laureate and bestselling author, the poet invites readers to explore a vivid landscape of emotions and thoughts through his incisive verses.
Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases Billy Collins's deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of America's most celebrated and widely read poets.
"Billy Collin's first new book in three years contains more than forty new poems that showcase [his] generosity, playfulness, and wisdom"--
Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic language
In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
An invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew from US poet laureate, Billy Collins
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure.A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance.With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.
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. 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.