He is the author of several books of poetry, including Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013), Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems (Random House, 2012) Ballistics: Poems (Random House, 2008) She Was Just Seventeen (Modern Haiku Press, 2006) The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems (Random House, 2005) Nine Horses (Pan Macmillan, 2002) Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2001) Picnic, Lightning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Questions About Angels (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series The Apple That Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1988) Video Poems (Applezaba Press, 1979) and Pokerface (Kenmore Press, 1977).Ī recording of Collins reading thirty-three of his poems, The Best Cigarette, was released in 1997. Billy Collins was born in New York City on March 22, 1941.
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