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Title: Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0-375-75519-5 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (46 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The un-poetry
Comment: I generally don't like poetry, and I'm an English Major at a large university. However, when one of my professors included a piece from Billy Collins on a first-of-quarter hand out, I knew that this poet was unlike your typical flowery, treacly poet of yesterday.
Billy Collins' works isn't the poetry you may remember -- the boring stuff wrapped up in an unintelligable language for you to decipher. His words pierce your heart, make you smile, laugh and sometimes, nod with a deep understanding, or shed a tear.
I purchased this collection of Mr. Collins' work, and highly recommend it. Especially to poetry-phobes. It won't change your mind about all poetry, but will give you a benchmark for quality, contemporary poetry.
Rating: 2
Summary: A failure
Comment: This is the first book by Billy Collins that I have read, and so I must admit that my opinion may be relatively uninformed, although I think it is safe enough to assume that this is a fair representation of his work thus far. It seems to me that Collins' preoccupation with accessibility has overpowered his poetry, if indeed the contents of this book can be said to be poems at all, rather than cut-up prose. Dullness is the recurring characteristic of the collection, and the famous Collins charm wears thin very quickly. The value of poetry lies in how something is said, rather than what is said, and Sailing Alone Around the Room does not provide that value.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm convinced
Comment: I first throught I wouldn't like Billy Collins. There's a kind of superiority to his tone at times, and his subject matter seems to be about subjects always covered in poetry, but I have to admit that reading parts of this book has really convinced me. Amazing. Seems like he's not taking himself wholly seriously, which is rare to see in poets.
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Title: Questions About Angels (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822956985 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Nine Horses : Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0375755209 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins ISBN: 0812968875 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Art of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822955679 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins ISBN: 0965887308 Publisher: Cielo Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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