Garrison Keillor has put together a wonderful collection of poems. These poems were featured and read by Keillor on his PBS radio show The Writer's Almanac. The poems are ordered well under groups like elders, lovers, snow, everyday life and others. He has picked poems from the classic poets and the new voices in poetry. If you a poetry lover nad looking for a great collection then you'll love this book. Also, check out his collection titled, Good Poems for Hard Times, another collection that is just as enjoyable. ( )

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. ( )

As good as its word: Good Poems delivers. I like to open to a random page and read. ( )

This is a pretty good collection of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor, and probably read on his program. Keillor writes an engaging foreword here, in which he speaks of these poems as meeting the test of "stickiness": "You hear it and a day later some of it is still there in the brainpan". I like the standard, and many of the poems here do have a degree of stickiness. One in particular, "wrist-wrestling father" on page 88, was particularly satisfying. But most of the poems here, while being what I would call "good" poems (whatever that means), do not have a great deal of stickiness. Still, Garrison Keillor has the most comforting voice I know, and I could probably listen to him read from the phone book. ( )