Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0038AKRQ6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 381 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poemsEvery day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from t
Kem White said A Wonderful Volume. A Perfect Introduction to Many Good Poets.. What a trove this book is. You might think "What does humorist Garrison Keillor know about poetry?" Quite a lot, it turns out. This is a wonderful anthology of poetry especially for anyone discovering poetry for the first time or rediscovering poetry after a bad high school English experience. Most of the poems in this volume are quite accessible.Keillor chose his poems from the past as well as the present but with the selections skewed more toward contemporary poets. I found many gems: all the poems by. Kenny A. Chaffin said No full table of contents in the E-Book. This is a wonderful collection which I own in hardback. I love it so much I purchased the E-Book as well.UNFORTUNATELY I am extremely disappointed in the E-Book. It does not have a FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS. It only has section headings which make it impossible to browse poems or poets and read individual poems. This defect IMO makes the ebook useless and I have returned it for a refund.I should also point out that the companion book - Good Poems for Hard Times does not have this defect. Each poem is liste. Good Poems Can't get any better. I use this in teaching and find it is a real delight. Many poems here are relatively obscure, but they are good, solid works of art, and reinforce the idea that poems lie not on the margin of human aesthetics, but in the center. There are not many "classics" here, but you can get those anywhere. Read these poems; they restore one's faith in creativity, poetry and humanity itself.
You hear it and a day later some of it is still there in the brainpan." Divided by subject-beginning with "O Lord," moving through "Day's Work," "Sons and Daughters" and through to "The End" and "The Resurrection"-the book includes work by writers past (Burns, Dickinson, Bishop, Williams, Shakespeare) and present: Robert Hass, Lisel Mueller, Tom Disch, among many others.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Good Poems selects 350 pieces of verse from among the thousands that have been read on the Almanac for "Stickiness, memorability. From Publishers Weekly Poetry is a regular feature on Garrison Keillor's NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, but for the last five years, it has formed the core of The Writer's Almanac, a daily, five-minute, 7 a.m. show on which Keil