![]() ![]() His books Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003 – 2013, The Rain in Portugal, and Whale Day And Other Poems were New York Times bestsellers. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight.īilly Collins has published twelve collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, Ballistics, Horoscopes for the Dead, and Picnic, Lightning. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. ![]() The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience – enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. ![]() No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. ![]()
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