A review by bbshams
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins

3.0

Billy Collins has a wonderful ability to highlight the magical and endearing nuances of things overlook daily. This collection, however, began to feel too mundane to me. Perhaps i read it too quickly, but i could only read so many poems about sitting in front of a window writing before my eyes start to glaze over. There are some quiet, powerful images in his poems that conjured smiles in me and made this collection worth the read, but it has not been my favorite of his