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 Collinsis the author of twelve collections of poetry,
includingThe 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,andPicnic, Lightning. He is also the editor ofPoetry 180-
A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More- Extraordinary Poems for Every
Day,andBright 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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