Good Poems
Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor

If you don't know enough about poetry to know who's good these days, or those days, and you want some good poems, this is the book to start with. I think Stephen King might have also recommended this anthology in either the first or second list of book recommendations in On Writing. (That's how I fo......more

Great anthology. Some really good poems. The only thing I didn’t like is fragmented poems. Perhaps because I love Whitman. Seeing just a part of Song of Myself in it, isn’t that pleasing. Either include it complete or not at all, but that’s my preference. Great choices though. Below is one of many I......more

Such a beautiful collection......more

Emily Dickenson wrote, "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?" Very few of the poems in this c......more

I've been reading this one off and on for four or five months; it's not to be digested all at once! The poems Keillor chooses are, on average, sentimental and accessible, and I mean that in the best way. They are poems that bridge the gap between your heart and the poet's, rather than separating you......more