Questions about angels : poems / Billy Collins.

Pt. 1. American sonnet -- A history of weather -- First reader -- Student of clouds -- Candle hat -- The death of allegory -- Reading myself to sleep -- The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- The hunt -- Forgetfulness. Pt. 2. Questions about angels -- A wonder of the world -- Mappamundi -- The first geniuses -- The afterlife -- The dead -- Endangered -- Going out for cigarettes. Pt. 3. Purity -- Cliche -- Field guide -- Putti in the night -- The man in the moon -- Horseman, pass by! -- Memento Mori - The last man on earth -- Come running -- Modern peasant -- Instructions to the artist -- Weighing the dog -- One life to live -- The wires of the night -- Axiom -- Vade Mecum -- Not touching -- Night sand -- Love in the Sahara -- Invective. Pt. 4. The life of Riley: a definitive biography -- Jack -- Metamorphosis -- Saturday morning -- Late show -- Pie man -- Wolf -- The history teacher -- Pensee -- The discovery of scat -- Dog -- The willies -- On reading in the morning paper that dreams may be only nonsense -- Rip Van Winkle -- English country house -- Nostalgia.