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Good Poems, American Places

2011-04-14 Poetry
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Release : 2011-04-14
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 192/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Good Poems, American Places by : Various

Download or read book Good Poems, American Places written by Various. This book was released on 2011-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards from the road, by poets who've gotten carried away by a particular place-a town in Kansas, a kitchen window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets and brash unknowns alike, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be exalted anywhere in America.

Good Poems

2003-08-26 Poetry
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Release : 2003-08-26
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Good Poems by : Various

Download or read book Good Poems written by Various. This book was released on 2003-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the narrator 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." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written a good poem. Somebody else can worry about greatness. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" is a good poem, and so is James Wright's "A Blessing." Regular people love those poems. People read them aloud at weddings, people send them by e-mail. Good Poems includes poems 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.

Good Poems for Hard Times

2006-08-29 Poetry
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Release : 2006-08-29
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Good Poems for Hard Times written by . This book was released on 2006-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Place that Inhabits Us

2010 San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
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Release : 2010
Genre : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
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Book Rating : 611/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Place that Inhabits Us by : Sixteen Rivers Press

Download or read book The Place that Inhabits Us written by Sixteen Rivers Press. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. California Studies. Foreword by Robert Hass. The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay, the poems in THE PLACE THAT INHABITS US are drawn from both a physical and a metaphoric watershed. From the granite slopes of the Sierra to the Delta, through the Coastal Range to the bay and shores of the Pacific, one hundred poems by poets well known and not well known, living and dead, map this improbable region. There are egrets and grievous losses here; prayers, panhandlers, Delta mornings and sunsets in the 'hood; the fog, certainly, and the bridges, but there are shades of Dante on a Miwok trail, and Wang-wei haunts the slopes of Grizzly Peak. These poems are internal maps, "the mental maps that for humans," writes Robert Hass in the foreword, "make a place a place." Gathered together, they evoke the San Francisco Bay watershed, the place that inhabits us.

Even in Quiet Places

1996 Poetry
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Release : 1996
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Even in Quiet Places by : William Stafford

Download or read book Even in Quiet Places written by William Stafford. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety poems gathered from four privately printed limited editions are now available to the general public. Stafford's poems demonstrate his profound understanding of freedom and social justice while showing us ways to establish harmony in our own lives.

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