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The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems
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ISBN13: 9781557288233
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: Feb 1 2006
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.08 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins the most popular poet in America. He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems.
In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins's The Apple That Astonished Paris, his first real book of poems, as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press's twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press's all-time best sellers. In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, I gathered together what I considered my best poems and threw them in the mail. After what seemed like a very long time Press director Miller Williams, a poet as well, returned the poems to him in the familiar self-addressed, stamped envelope. He told Collins that there was good work here but that there was work to be done before he'd have a real collection he and the Press could be proud of: Williams's words were more encouragement than I had ever gotten before and more than enough to inspire me to begin taking my writing more seriously than I had before.
This collection includes some of Collins's most anthologized poems, including Introduction to Poetry, Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House, and Advice to Writers. Its success over the years is testament to Collins's talent as one of our best poets, and as he writes in the preface, this new edition . . . is a credit to the sustained vibrancy of the University of Arkansas Press and, I suspect, to the abiding spirit of its former director, my first editorial father.
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