Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.
“America’s favorite poet.”—The Wall Street Journal
“[Billy Collins] is able, with precious few words, to make me cry.
Or laugh out loud. He is a remarkable artist. To have such power in
such an abbreviated form is deeply inspiring.”—J. J. Abrams, The
New York Times Book Review
“His work is poignant, straightforward, usually funny and
imaginative, also nuanced and surprising. It bears repeated reading
and reading aloud.”—The Plain Dealer
“Collins has earned almost rock-star status. . . . He knows how to
write layered, subtly witty poems that anyone can understand and
appreciate—even those who don’t normally like poetry. . . . The
Collins in these pages is distinctive, evocative, and knows how to
make the genre fresh and relevant.”—The Christian Science
Monitor
“Collins’s new poems contain everything you've come to expect from
a Billy Collins poem. They stand solidly on even ground, chiseled
and unbreakable. Their phrasing is elegant, the humor is alive, and
the speaker continues to stroll at his own pace through the
plainness of American life.”—The Daily Beast
“[Collins’s] poetry presents simple observations, which create a
shared experience between Collins and his readers, while further
revealing how he takes life’s everyday humdrum experiences and
makes them vibrant.”—The Times Leader
“Former poet laureate and reader favorite Collins, the maestro of
the running-brook line and the clever pivot, celebrates the
resonance and absurdity of what might be called the poet’s
attention-surfeit disorder. . . . But Collins’s droll wit is often
a diversionary tactic, so that when he strikes you with the hard
edge of his darker visions, you reel.”—Booklist
“A stellar jumping-off point . . . a joyride through all layers of
his approach from 2002 to the present, which should not only please
his current fans, but inspire many others to dive into Mr.
Collins’s work, headfirst.”—The Rumpus
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