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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 Keillor's words, their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-07-2019
Great poems but many untitled
Loved the selection of poem but some were titled with authors while authors were not. Still worth getting and listening to. Beautiful
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