eyal reviewed Good Poems by Garrison Keillor
Review of 'Good Poems' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
If you want to try reading a collection of poems, this is a good place to start.
476 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2003 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Good Poems
4 stars
(2 reviews)
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. 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. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
markm reviewed Good Poems by Garrison Keillor
Review of 'Good Poems' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Hard to rate something like this - some of the contained poems are among the great works of literature. I somewhat preferred his other anthology Good Poems for Hard Times.