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Title: Nothing to Say
Review: Billy Collins is the only poet I know that writes about doing nothing. With his newest collection, we find Billy looking out the window, staring at a water stain on a ceiling, watching clouds change into animals in the sky, and so on. In "Bermuda," Collins writes: "we come about as close/as a man and a woman can/to doing nothing." Is all this supposed to be amusing? Enlightening? With "Nine Horses," it becomes painfully obvious that our Poet Laureate has nothing to say, but says it anyway.
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