Saturday, March 6, 2010

Favorites from Billy Collins

I'm not sure how I feel about putting poems by one of my favorite poets up here in this space. I prefer to buy his books—and to encourage you to do the same.

And yet sometimes the right book isn't ready to hand, and I just want to revisit a favorite... In many cases, it turns out, someone else has already posted the poem in question—thereby allowing me to skirt the vexing copyright question and simply point to the relevant page. Here are a few such: