# Water, Water

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- Book: [Water, Water](https://www.bookquiver.com/billy-collins/water-water) ([Water, Water.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/billy-collins/water-water.md))
- Authors: [Billy Collins](https://www.bookquiver.com/billy-collins)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-10-3506-870-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2025-05-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Collins is his own most eloquent critic . In a poem bearing the stripped down title of, " Your Poem," he suggests that one of the go-to emotions in his work is: " buoyant ease in the shadow of mortality". This whole collection is filled with poems that strike that rare attitude. And, some of them, like " Emily Dickinson in Space," are among the best poems that Collins has ever written.