Reading Task Overview
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
(Parts 4 & 5)
by Billy Collins
We’ll be reading from Sailing Alone Around the Room. We are going to read about 3/4 of the book. The book is divided into 5 main parts. The first 4 parts are earlier books of poetry by Collins and the last part is New Poems.
By now you should have read Parts 1 and 2 of the book. Your next assignment is to read Parts 4 and 5 of the book. Please read the following parts:
- Picnic, Lightning (Part 4)
- New Poems (Part 5)
You will not need to read The Art of Drowning (which is Part 3) of the Billy Collins book.