{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2006-david-lehman-9780743229678","title":"The Best American Poetry 2006","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests.\u003c\/b\u003e\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- From Billy Collins's introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2006\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Lehman, Billy Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0743229673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743229678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.86w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2006 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2006 pg. 16","brand":"David Lehman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925843935487,"sku":"9780743229678","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_216288d2-edf4-4f5c-91d9-e53369399c29.jpg?v=1681079699","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2006-david-lehman-9780743229678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}