"Using simple, understandable language," notes USA Today, the two-term US Poet Laureate "captures ordinary life - its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy."
His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance. Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches on a greater array of subjects - love, death, solitude, youth, and aging - delving deeper than ever before. Billy Collins has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.
