Virtually unknown as a poet in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson
(1830–1886) is now recognized as one of the most unaccountably
strange and marvelous of the world’s great writers. Unique in their
form, their psychic urgency, and their uncanny, crystalline power,
her poems represent a mind unlike any other to be found in
literature.
Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of
poetry, including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love,
Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine
Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The
Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the
editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More:
Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An
Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A Distinguished
Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of
New York and Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Winter Park
Institute of Rollins College, he was Poet Laureate of the United
States from 2001 to 2003 and New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006.
In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
"No one can read these poems...without perceiving that he is not so
much reading as being spoken to."
--Archibald MacLeish
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