The Best American Poetry 2006
Series Editor David Lehman
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2006
Summary
A vivid anthology of poems filled with wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, selected by guest editor Billy Collins.
The seventy-five poems in an array of styles and forms in this collection celebrate the pleasures of poetry, from writers as varied as Laura Cronk to Reb Livingston. 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743229678 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743229673 |
| Author: | Billy Collins, David Lehman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 140mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Best American Poetry (Paperback) |
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Critics Review
“Each year, a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable: and over the years, as good a comprehensive overview of contemporary poetry as there can be.” – Robert Pinsky
Billy Collins
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. He has written such nonfiction books as Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. 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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