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Sailing alone around the room : new and selected poems / Billy Collins.

By: Publication details: New York : Random House, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 171 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0375503803 (acidfree paper)
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3553.O47478 S25 2001
Contents:
[SECTION 1]. From The apple that astonished Paris (1988) -- Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house -- Walking across the Atlantic -- Plight of the troubadour -- The lesson -- Winter syntax -- Advice to writers -- The rival poet -- Insomnia -- Earthling -- Books -- Bar time -- My number -- Introduction to poetry -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art -- Schoolsville -- [SECTION 2]. From Questions about angels (1991) -- American sonnet -- Questions about angels -- A history of weather -- The death of allegory -- Forgetfulness -- Candle hat -- Student of clouds -- The dead -- The man in the moon -- The wires of the night -- Vade mecum -- Not touching -- The history teacher -- First reader -- Purity -- Nostalgia -- [SECTION 3]. From The art of drowning (1995) -- Consolation -- Osso Buco -- Directions -- Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales -- The best cigarette -- Days -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 -- Canada -- On turning ten -- Workshop -- My heart -- Budapest -- Dancing toward Bethlehem -- Monday morning -- Center -- Design -- Pinup -- Piano lessons -- The blues -- Man in space -- Nightclub -- Some final words -- [SECTION 4]. From Picnic, lightning (1998) -- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July -- To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now -- I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" -- Afternoon with Irish cows -- Marginalia -- Some days -- Picnic, lightning -- Morning -- Bonsai -- Shoveling snow with Buddha -- Snow -- Japan -- Victoria's secret -- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Lines lost among trees -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- The night house -- Splitting wood -- The death of the hat -- Passengers -- Where I live -- Aristotle -- [SECTION 5]. New poems -- Dharma -- Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles -- Snow day -- Insomnia -- Madmen -- Sonnet -- Idiomatic -- The waitress -- The butterfly effect -- Serenade -- The three wishes -- Pavilion -- The movies -- Jealousy -- Tomes -- Man listening to disc -- Scotland -- November -- The iron bridge -- The flight of the reader.
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PS3553 .O47478 N45 2002 Nine horses : poems / PS3553 .O47478 P52 1998 Picnic, lightning / PS3553 .O47478 Q47 1999 Questions about angels : poems / PS3553 .O47478 S25 2001 Sailing alone around the room : new and selected poems / PS3553 .O47478 T76 2005 The trouble with poetry and other poems / PS3553 .O5 M7 2005 Mr. Bridge : a novel / PS3553 .O5 M72 2010 Mrs. Bridge /

[SECTION 1]. From The apple that astonished Paris (1988) -- Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house -- Walking across the Atlantic -- Plight of the troubadour -- The lesson -- Winter syntax -- Advice to writers -- The rival poet -- Insomnia -- Earthling -- Books -- Bar time -- My number -- Introduction to poetry -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art -- Schoolsville -- [SECTION 2]. From Questions about angels (1991) -- American sonnet -- Questions about angels -- A history of weather -- The death of allegory -- Forgetfulness -- Candle hat -- Student of clouds -- The dead -- The man in the moon -- The wires of the night -- Vade mecum -- Not touching -- The history teacher -- First reader -- Purity -- Nostalgia -- [SECTION 3]. From The art of drowning (1995) -- Consolation -- Osso Buco -- Directions -- Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales -- The best cigarette -- Days -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 -- Canada -- On turning ten -- Workshop -- My heart -- Budapest -- Dancing toward Bethlehem -- Monday morning -- Center -- Design -- Pinup -- Piano lessons -- The blues -- Man in space -- Nightclub -- Some final words -- [SECTION 4]. From Picnic, lightning (1998) -- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July -- To a stranger born in some distant country hundreds of years from now -- I chop some parsley while listening to Art Blakey's version of "Three blind mice" -- Afternoon with Irish cows -- Marginalia -- Some days -- Picnic, lightning -- Morning -- Bonsai -- Shoveling snow with Buddha -- Snow -- Japan -- Victoria's secret -- Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey -- Paradelle for Susan -- Lines lost among trees -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes -- The night house -- Splitting wood -- The death of the hat -- Passengers -- Where I live -- Aristotle -- [SECTION 5]. New poems -- Dharma -- Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty, I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles -- Snow day -- Insomnia -- Madmen -- Sonnet -- Idiomatic -- The waitress -- The butterfly effect -- Serenade -- The three wishes -- Pavilion -- The movies -- Jealousy -- Tomes -- Man listening to disc -- Scotland -- November -- The iron bridge -- The flight of the reader.

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