The Best American poetry, 2006 /

The Best American poetry, 2006 / Billy Collins, editor ; David Lehman, series editor. - New York : Scribner Poetry, c2006. - xxiii, 197 p. 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry. 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.

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American poetry
American poetry

PS 615 / .B464 2006