Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins follows up The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems with this 2008 collection, offering moving yet playful takes on love, death, solitude, youth, and aging. His simple, accessible language and self-deprecating charm nonetheless contain eye-opening insight and real passion. "If I lived across the street from myself / and I was sitting in the dark / on the edge of the bed / at five o'clock in the morning, / I might be wondering what the light / was doing on in my study at this hour."