Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide always trust magic

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successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled

about “the myth of a happy family” (The New York Review of Books)

their euphoria

It's the summer of 1989 and Beatrice and Henrietta Volt are coming of age on remote Fowler Island

Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide always trust magicSailing Alone Around the Room, by Americas Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start