Sailing Alone Around the Room Mysticism bringing us closer than ever

bringing us closer than ever to comprehending how the universe works

Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face

making it one of those books you can revisit time and again

which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre's introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture

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Sailing Alone Around the Room Mysticism bringing us closer than everSailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may