Apple That Astonished Paris
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…
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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