Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
Written by Garrison Keillor
Narrated by Garrison Keillor and Ensemble Cast
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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hard 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is what I have always wanted in a compilation.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a book I discovered in High School when I was trying to mature my taste in poetry. Anthologies are almost always the best way to grow in taste when it comes to new types of reading. I loved it then and there are still parts of it I still love now, however, not as much as I once did. Narrative Poetry for me has become tired and I yearn for more contemporary and challenging pieces. Still, this is a wonderful collection for anyone who loves easy going and lovely poetry.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A go-to anthology of short, clear poems. Nothing difficult but all good and some excellent.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A small handful of these got tabbed, but mostly they're just not to my taste. At least I discovered I'm not a fan of Dickinson or Bukowski.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting division of poems, although at times the poems within the section didn't quite reflect the respective section title. An anthology containing some poems I couldn't relate to, some good poems and some beautiful poems, outstanding in their simplicity and imagery, such as "When one has lived a long time alone" by Galway Kinnell (echoed with mysticism); "Rain Travel" by WS Merwin (vivid imagery of lying awake listening to the night time rain) and "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry (expressing a deeply spiritual communion with nature) were particular favourites.A nice addition to my poetry collection.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An enjoyable collection
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My copy of this book is fluttering with many little Post-it Flags. The spine is creased from folding it flat so I could copy out a poem to share with someone. I read my favorites many times. It's good to have poetry, especially poetry like this which reads aloud well.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5You hear Garrison Keillor when you read the poem's in this collection edited by Keillor.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I read the entire book and only really liked two poems. A few seemed okay at best. I guess I'm just not a poetry type of person.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"This is not Introduction to Poetry (MWF 9am Chemistry 150, 3 cr) and I am not the Maud Hill Hallowell Professor of American Lit, and your name isn't Daphne Foxcroft. It's simply a book of poems... that somehow stuck with me...." from Keillor's intro to this book. Recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Garrison Keillor has put together a wonderful collection of poems. These poems were featured and read by Keillor on his PBS radio show The Writer's Almanac. The poems are ordered well under groups like elders, lovers, snow, everyday life and others. He has picked poems from the classic poets and the new voices in poetry. If you a poetry lover nad looking for a great collection then you'll love this book. Also, check out his collection titled, Good Poems for Hard Times, another collection that is just as enjoyable.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a wonderful collection of poetry selected by Garrison Keillor. I picked this one up at the library to help me find some not-so-well-known poems for my blog in honor of National Poetry Month. After reading each and every poem in the book and having a hard time choosing between them for the blog, I know that this is a book that I must own!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's a nice collection, and it's really nice Garrison Keillor found a way to make money off material in the public domain.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As good as its word: Good Poems delivers. I like to open to a random page and read.