The Best American Poetry 2006
Series Editor David Lehman
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 Be…
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Weitere Autoren: Lehman, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7432-2967-8
- EAN: 9780743229678
- Produktnummer: 1912546
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.5 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
Über den Autor
David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His eleven books of poetry include Playlist, Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is One Hundred Autobiographies A Memoir. 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.
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