Billy Collins, Author . Random $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-50380-1
This collection hit the front page of the New York Times
its first time out of the blocks in 1999, as the University of Pittsburgh Press, Collins's longtime publisher, denied Random the rights to the poems as the poet tried to jump ship. The...
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Billy Collins, Author . Random $22.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-375-50382-5
Two years after his very visible stint as U.S. poet laureate, Collins (Sailing Alone Around the Room
) remains one of the nation's most popular poets. His light touch, his self-deprecating pathos and his unerring sense of his audience (nothing...
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Billy Collins, Author . Random $24 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6491-5
The latest from former U.S. laureate Collins (The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
) again shows the deft, often self-mocking touch that has made him one of America’s bestselling poets: while this volume hardly breaks new ground, it should...
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Billy Collins, Random, $24 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6492-2
The 1990s belonged to Billy Collins in the same way that the 1980s belonged to Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten). Collins's gently ironic, gently elegiac work—the mirror image of, say, Jonathan Franzen's suburban...
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Billy Collins, Author William Morrow & Company $9 (105p) ISBN 978-0-688-10731-4
Smack-dab in the middle of this collection is the delightful ``Purity,'' a poem detailing Collins's macabre writing process. On Wednesdays, in the late afternoon, the poet goes to his study and sheds his clothes. He then removes his flesh--``so that
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Billy Collins. Random House, $26 (128p) ISBN 978-0-679-64406-4
Collins (Aimless Love) returns with 60 typically on-brand poems of wandering, observing, and experiencing brief moments of profundity. There are elements of darkness and political awareness (“the piece/ on the morning radio about the former asylum/...
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Billy Collins, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, one CD, 1.5 hrs., $20 ISBN 978-0-385-36639-7
Two-term Poet Laureate Collins offers up this compilation of poems from the chapbooks he published over the last 12 years. Collins has a clear, plainspoken voice that makes for an easy, even relaxing, listening experience. At the same time, the...
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Billy Collins, illus. by Karen Romagna. Bunker Hill (Midpoint Trade, dist.), $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59373-154-0
In his first picture book, Collins, a former U.S. poet laureate, uses one long, incantatory sentence to describe the way a child enters the world of a book and loses himself in it. Newcomer Romagna paints a dark-haired boy who sets out in a wooden...
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Billy Collins, Author, Maggie Kneen, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-029003-0
A couple of titles inspired by the lyrics from two songs of yesteryear (piano music included), celebrate paternal love, with illustrations by Maggie Kneen. Daddy's Little Girl by Bobby Burke and Horace Gerlach and Daddy's Little Boy by Billy...
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Billy Collins. Random House, $26 (144p) ISBN 978-0-399-58975-1
The playful 13th collection from Collins (The Rain in Portugal) is packed with his signature quirky humor and small epiphanies grounded in the everyday. Between poems about the correct way to peel a banana and the imagined embarrassment of an...
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