Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor - Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost

Category: Anthology

Tags: Anthology, Poetry, Adults

Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. 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. Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence., The poems are read by Keillor and a number of the poets included in the collection. Some are wise, some are funny, some are soothing or heartwarming. All were chosen for their wit, frankness, passion, and, in Keillors words, their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m., Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins Release date: 02-11-10