The Art of Drowning

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| author = Billy Collins

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| language = English

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| genre = Poetry

| publisher = University of Pittsburgh Press

| release_date = June 29, 1995

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| pages = 112

| isbn = 0822938936

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The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."{{cite web |url=http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34383 |title=BookDetails |website=www.upress.pitt.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901111652/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34383 |archive-date=2006-09-01}} The title poem is the 11th poem in the collection, and it describes a man who reflects on the course of his life while he is drowning.