num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Best American Poetry 2006
titlecomplete: The Best American Poetry 2006
genres: American, Nonfiction, Anthologies, Poetry
ratings_count: 283
publisher: Scribner