May open with humor and close with grief. They may begin with irony and end in lyric transcendence. Whether old or new, these poems will catch their readers by exhilarating New poems, including "Man Listening to Disc," a jazz trip with headphones,Īnd "The Iron Bridge," a wildly speculative, moving elegy. 'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man!' " And he also serves us a generous portion of Readers: " 'Absolutely,' they shout to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin. "Marginalia," he catalogs the scrawled comments of books' previous Phones." In "Osso Buco," a poem about gustatory pleasure, the "lion ofĬontent-ment" places a warm heavy paw on the poet's chest. Southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no In "Forgetful-ness," memories of the contents of a novel "retire to the Reputation, Collins offers the lyric equivalent of an album of Greatest Hits. New York Public Library "Literary Lion," and incomparably popularįrom four earlier collections, which have secured for him a national New and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, Phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of SailingĪlone Around the Room, a landmark collection of Singing group The Sensational Nightingales. 3 page 67."High, most encouraging tidings" that is how BillyĬollins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet,ĭescribes the music in his poem about the gospel The Atlantic Monthly September 1999 Man Listening to Disc Volume 284, No. His Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems will be published next year.Ĭopyright © 1999 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. Will eventually make it all the way downtown.īilly Collins is the author of several poetry collections, including The Art of Drowning (1995) and Picnic, Lightning (1998). Who mistake themselves for the center of the universe -īecause the five of us, instruments and all, The man in the tan raincoat and the heavy glasses, Little version of "The Way You Look Tonight,"Īnd all I can say to my fellow pedestrians, To motorize - or whatever - his huge piano Nodding over a profusion of bread crumbs. His music flowing through the soft calipers Hear Billy Collins read this poem (in RealAudio). S E P T E M B E R 1 9 9 9 MAN LISTENING TO DISC by Billy Collins
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