Good Poems for Hard Times
by Billy Collins and Herman Melville and Garrison Keillor and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Patricia Hampl and Hilaire Belloc and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and W.S. Merwin and Hayden Carruth and Raymond Carver and Elizabeth Bishop and Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost and Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver and X.J. Kennedy and Charles Bukowski and Edna St. Vincent Millay and Stephen Dunn and Rita Dove and Grace Paley and Robert Burns and William Blake and W.H. Auden and John Keats and Donald Hall and Galway Kinnell and David Ignatow and Howard Nemerov and Thomas Hardy and Carl Sandburg and Stephen Dobyns and Noël Coward and E.E. Cummings and Sharon Olds and Carl Dennis and John Donne and Kenneth Rexroth and Jim Harrison and Fleur Adcock and John Berryman and Louis MacNeice and Jane Kenyon and Erica Funkhouser and Jennifer Michael Hecht and Maxine Kumin and Kate Light and Lawrence Raab and Philip Booth and Virginia Hamilton Adair and Liesl Mueller
Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. 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 Jennifer Michael Hecht, 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.
Release Date:
August 28, 2006
