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Good poems for hard times / selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin, 2006.Description: xxiii, 344 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0143037676 :
  • 9780143037675
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811.008 22
Summary: Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.
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Adult Book Phillipsburg Free Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Adult Non-Fiction 811.008 GOO Available pap.ed. 36748002067801
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. " - The Christian Science Monitor

Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry.

Includes index.

Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.

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Booklist Review

Having revived the radio variety program with A Prairie Home Companion0 Garrison Keillor turned to broadcasting poetry in the daily short feature The Writer's Almanac0 . In any given week, probably more people hear him read poems than attend poetry readings and slams. That's good because his taste is excellent. But then, his criteria are golden. For him, a poem is good if it's memorable, recitable, and accessible. The almost-unheard-of-for-poetry sales of Good Poems0 (2002) suggest that many endorse his taste and criteria, and the sequel to that success gives them no reason to change their minds. As before, the range of poets represented is broad contemporarily (the majority are alive or very recently deceased) and historically (sixteenth to twenty-first century), though not internationally, for, with one exception (Psalm 51), English is these poems' language of origin. As before, too, these are predominantly poems of domesticity and ordinary things, and when a poem touches the genuinely extraordinary, it is related to everyday life; for instance, Stephen Dobyns' "Thelonious Monk" relates a particular instance of a kind of experience virtually everyone has--the discovery of greatness. Even those tired of Lake Wobegon, or who think Keillor's a bigoted Democrat (especially after Homemade Democrat0 , 2004), should grant that he knows good poetry. --Ray Olson Copyright 2005 Booklist
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