Love this book. ( )

Some great stuff in here for poetry lovers

I'm not usually a big fan of poetry. Maybe I have too much of a linear
thinking brain. I never really understood poetry that didn't rhyme or have
a recognizable meter because, to me, it simply looked like someone was
writing down esoteric sentences with just a word or two on each line,
sometimes like stair-steps, to more or less make a design on the paper with
the words. That sort of thing goes past me so fast it parts my hair.

So, me picking up a poetry book is an unusual thing to begin with. I only
did it because it had Garrison Keillor's name on the cover of it. These are
poems he's read on the early morning Public Radio program /The Writer's
Almanac/. He's divided the poems he's chosen here according to subject
matter: lovers, work, failure, snow, everyday life, beasts, trips, elders,
death and transcendence, and the color yellow. An eclectic group of
subjects and a very eclectic group of poetry. Some by Shakespeare, some by
Browning, one or two by Keats, but mostly authored by poets I've never heard
of. Some rhyme, some don't. I liked some and not others. But that's how
it's supposed to be with poetry, I think.

Anyway, if you are into poetry, you might want to give this one a try. I'm
not into it but I did finish it. It gets a 2.

This 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! ( )

It's a nice collection, and it's really nice Garrison Keillor found a way to make money off material in the public domain. ( )