Billy Collins

Billy Collins is without question my favorite American poet. He’s the modern Robert Frost, except smoother and funnier.

I recommend all of his poetic collections.

• The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988)
• Questions About Angels (1991)
• The Art of Drowning (1995)
• Picnic, Lightning (1998)
• Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes: Selected Poems (2000)
• Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001)
• Nine Horses (2002)
• The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems (2005)
• Ballistics (2008)
• Horoscopes for the Dead (2011)
• Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (2013)
• The Rain in Portugal (2016)
• Whale Day: And Other Poems (2020)