The Best American Poetry 2006 by Lehman, David

The Best American Poetry 2006 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780743229678)

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The Best American Poetry 2006 by Lehman, David

The Best American Poetry 2006

$30.00
The Best American Poetry 2006 by Lehman, David

The Best American Poetry 2006

$30.00
Format: Hardcover
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"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests."

-- From Billy Collins's introduction

The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry -- from Laura Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women."

In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.

Author: David Lehman, Billy Collins
ISBN-10: 0743229673
ISBN-13: 9780743229678
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2006
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.86w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2006 pg. 55
Booklist 09/15/2006 pg. 16
By David Lehman
By David Lehman
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David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Billy Collins is the award-winning author of The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, and Picnic, Lightning, among other poetry collections. He has edited the anthologies Poetry 180 and 180 More. He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past thirty years. From 2001 to 2003 he served as the Poet Laureate of the United States.

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