Billy Collins


THE BEST CIGARETTE
CD Audiobook, Small Good Press, 1997

The Best Cigarette is in print. If you haven't heard Billy Collins reading his poems, you're missing half the fun. This CD captures the voice that captivated us on NPR's Prairie Home Companion and Fresh Air. People seem to like it for car rides and gift-giving (see the Comments page. Click on a poem below to read/hear it right now. Did we mention the cool cover? (It won a prestigious award from Communication Arts).

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List of Tracks:

1 another reason I don't keep a gun in the house 2 shoveling snow with the buddha 3 marginalia 4 afternoon with irish cows 5 walking across the atlantic 6 intro 7 consolation 8 forgetfulness 9 workshop 10 morning 11 driving myself to a poetry reading 12 wolf 13 purity 14 the art of drowning 15 nostalgia 16 candle hat 17 sweetalk 18 instructions to artist 19 pin-up 20 flames 21 Saturday morning 22 the afterlife 23 man in space 24 aristotle 25 wires of the night 26 history of weather 27 best cigarette 28 invention of the sax 29 child development 30 on reading in the morning paper that dreams may be only nonsense 31 the first dream 32 japan 33 thesaurus 34 nightclub







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