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| Author | Billy Collins |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Publication date | June 29, 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 112 |
| ISBN | 0822938936 |
The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."[1] The title poem is the 11th poem in the collection, and it describes a man who reflects on the course of his life while he is drowning.
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