The Best American Poetry 2006

Series Editor David Lehman

By: David Lehman (Editor), Billy Collins

Hardcover | 1 November 2006 | Edition Number 1

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"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests."-- From Billy Collins's introduction

"The Best American Poetry" series offers a distinguished poet's 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 Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "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 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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"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

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Foreword
Introduction
"Verities"
"'See the Pyramids Along the Nile'"
From "Couple from Hell"
"A Worldly Country"
"Speech in a Chamber"
"Letter from My Ancestors"
"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"
"Apologia to the Blue Tit"
"Rhetorical Figures"
"Sestina for the Newly Married"
"Our Generation"
"Toward Some Bright Moment"
"'Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen'"
"The Land of Is"
"Souvenir"
"List of First Lines"
"For My Niece Sidney, Age Six"
"Bust of a Young Boy in the Snow"
"The Death of Winckelmann"
"My First Mermaid"
"The Curve"
"Monsieur Pierre est mort"
from "Sects from A to Z"
"Bird, Weasel, Fountain"
"Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women"
"On the Way to the Doctor's"
"The Problem of Describing Color"
"Hour"
"Talk"
"My career as a director"
"The Ferry"
"At Gettysburg"
"Just a second ago"
"Seventeen Ways from Tuesday"
"The Laws of Probability in Levittown"
"Found"
"Sally's Hair"
"Tonight"
"Double Abecedarian: Please Give Me"
"Demographic"
"That's Not Butter"
"Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals"
"Blenheim"
"Albert Hinckley"
"Briefcase of Sorrow"
"The Poet with His Face in His Hands"
"Small Town Rocker"
"The Sharper the Berry"
"Race"
"Two Poets Meet"
"The Great Poem"
"Roadside Special"
"The Other Woman's Point of View"
"Discounting Lynn"
"Thin"
"A Phone Call to the Future"
"Memoir"
"Misjudged Fly Ball"
"House of Cards"
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