TY - BOOK AU - Collins, Billy. AU - Lehman, David, TI - The Best American poetry, 2006 SN - 9780743229678 AV - PS 615 .B464 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Scribner Poetry KW - American poetry N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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. ER -