TY - BOOK AU - Collins,Billy TI - The apple that astonished Paris: poems SN - 1557288224 (hardcover : alk. paper) PY - 2006/// CY - Fayetteville PB - University of Arkansas Press KW - American poetry N1 - "With a new preface."; Away : Vanishing point -- Walking across the Atlantic -- The blue -- Schoolsville -- Driving with animals -- Strange lands -- Tuscany -- Tourist : Dromahair, Co. Sligo -- Flying to a funeral -- Etymology -- Hunger -- Hart Crane -- Winter Syntax -- Plight of the troubadour -- The Frankenstein poet -- Lost -- The past -- Fur -- Flames -- Home : Books -- On closing Anna Karenina -- Indoors -- Death -- Remembering dreams -- Earthling -- Child development -- Putting down the cat -- The lesson -- Lowell, Mass. -- Programs -- The morning after my death -- Personal history -- Bar time -- Insomnia -- Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house -- Cancer -- Embrace -- The rival poet -- My number -- Poem -- Hopeless but not serious -- Advice to writers -- Introduction to poetry -- Desire -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art ER -