The Best American Poetry 2006: Series Editor David Lehman by Billy Collins (Engl

Description: The Best American Poetry 2006 by Billy Collins, David Lehman Synopsis coming soon....... FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collinss introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poets 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 Cronks marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Hallidays "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 Lehmans 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 Biography 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. Table of Contents Contents Foreword by David Lehman Introduction by Billy Collins Kim Addonizio, "Verities" Dick Allen, "See the Pyramids Along the Nile" Craig Arnold, from "Couple from Hell" John Ashbery, "A Worldly Country" Jesse Ball, "Speech in a Chamber" Krista Benjamin, "Letter from My Ancestors" Ilya Bernstein, "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" Gaylord Brewer, "Apologia to the Blue Tit" Tom Christopher, "Rhetorical Figures" Laura Cronk, "Sestina for the Newly Married" Carl Dennis, "Our Generation" Stephen Dobyns, "Toward Some Bright Moment" Denise Duhamel, "Please Dont Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen" Stephen Dunn, "The Land of Is" Beth Ann Fennelly, "Souvenir" Megan Gannon, "List of First Lines" Amy Gerstler, "For My Niece Sidney, Age Six" Sarah Gorham, "Bust of a Young Boy in the Snow" George Green, "The Death of Winckelmann" Debora Greger, "My First Mermaid" Eamon Grennan, "The Curve" Daniel Gutstein, "Monsieur Pierre est mort" R. S. Gwynn, from "Sects from A to Z" Rachel Hadas, "Bird, Weasel, Fountain" Mark Halliday, "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women" Jim Harrison, "On the Way to the Doctors" Robert Hass, "The Problem of Describing Color" Christian Hawkey, "Hour" Terrance Hayes, "Talk" Bob Hicok, "My career as a director" Katia Kapovich, "The Ferry" Laura Kasischke, "At Gettysburg" Joy Katz, "Just a second ago" David Kirby, "Seventeen Ways from Tuesday" Jennifer L. Knox, "The Laws of Probability in Levittown" Ron Koertge, "Found" John Koethe, "Sallys Hair" Mark Kraushaar, "Tonight" Julie Larios, "Double Abecedarian: Please Give Me" Dorianne Laux, "Demographic" Reb Livingston, "Thats Not Butter" Thomas Lux, "Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals" Paul Muldoon, "Blenheim" Marilyn Nelson, "Albert Hinckley" Richard Newman, "Briefcase of Sorrow" Mary Oliver, "The Poet with His Face in His Hands" Danielle Pafunda, "Small Town Rocker" Mark Pawlak, "The Sharper the Berry" Bao Phi, "Race" Donald Platt, "Two Poets Meet" Lawrence Raab, "The Great Poem" Betsy Retallack, "Roadside Special" Liz Rosenberg, "The Other Womans Point of View" J. Allyn Rosser, "Discounting Lynn" Kay Ryan, "Thin" Mary Jo Salter, "A Phone Call to the Future" Vijay Seshadri, "Memoir" Alan Shapiro, "Misjudged Fly Ball" Charles Simic, "House of Cards" 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 Long Description "So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collinss introduction The Best American Poetryseries offers a distinguished poets 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 Cronks marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Hallidays "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 Lehmans thought-provoking foreword,The Best American Poetry 2006is 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. Review Quote "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 Details ISBN0743229673 Language English ISBN-10 0743229673 ISBN-13 9780743229678 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 811.008 Year 2006 Author David Lehman Imprint Scribner Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title BEST AMER POETRY 2006 Series Best American Poetry (Paperback) Subtitle Series Editor David Lehman DOI 10.1604/9780743229678 NZ Release Date 2006-09-19 US Release Date 2006-09-19 UK Release Date 2006-09-19 AU Release Date 2006-10-31 Pages 224 Publisher Simon & Schuster Publication Date 2006-09-19 Edited by David Lehman Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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