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Good poems, American places / selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin, 2012.Description: xxvii, 484 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 014312076X
  • 9780143120766
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Contents:
Julia Kasdorf -- Meg Kearney -- Jane Kenyon -- Galway Kinnell -- August Kleinzahler -- William Kloefkorn -- Ron Koertge -- Ted Kooser -- Maxine Kumin -- Donald Justice -- Charlie Langdon -- Gary L. Lark -- Dorianne Laux -- Emma Lazarus (Long Island Sound) -- Eleanor Lerman -- Philip Levine -- Brad Leithauser -- Gerald Locklin -- Jeanne Lohmann -- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow -- Phillip Lopate -- Freya Manfred -- Dan Masterson -- Sebastian Matthews -- William Matthews -- Linda McCarriston -- Dawn McDuffie -- Wesley McNair -- W.S. Merwin -- Corey Mesler -- Carolyn Miller -- Mark J. Mitchell -- Robert Morgan -- Malena Mörling -- Howard Moss -- Howard Nemerov -- William Notter -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Debra Nystrom -- Sharon Olds -- Sheila Packa -- Grace Paley -- Greg Pape -- Linda Pastan -- Alice N. Persons -- Marge Piercy -- Katha Pollitt -- Barbara Ras -- James Reiss -- Kenneth Rexroth -- Theodore Roethke -- John Santayana -- May Sarton -- Ellie Schoenfeld -- Philip Schultz -- Anne Sexton -- Harvey Shapiro -- Faith Shearin -- Julie Sheehan -- Deborah Slicer -- W.D. Snodgrass -- Gary Snyder -- William Stafford -- Ellen Steinbaum -- Terry Stevenson -- Joseph Stroud -- Joyce Sutphen -- May Swenson -- James Tate -- Sara Teasdale -- James Tracy -- David Tucker -- John Updike -- Mona Van Duyn -- David Wagoner -- Ronald Wallace -- Julene Tripp Weaver -- Fred Weil Jr. -- Walt Whitman -- Reed Whittemore -- Anne Pierson Wiese -- C.K. Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Christopher Wiseman -- Vincent Wixon -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Baron Wormser -- Charles Wright -- James Wright -- Kevin Young.
On the Road -- A Warm Summer -- The Place Where we Were Naked -- City Life -- 2X2X2 -- A Comforting Immensity -- A Sort of Rapture -- On the Avenue -- Snow -- Residential -- Good Work -- Out West -- Show Business -- Ocean Brine -- Never Expected to be There.
Poets include: Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Rick Agran -- Debra Allbery -- Ellen Bass -- Jeffrey Bean -- June Beisch -- Wendell Berry -- George Bilgere -- Michael Blumenthal -- Robert Bly -- Laure-Anne Bousselaar -- Jon Bowerman -- Marcia F. Brown -- Philip Bryant -- David Budbill -- Charles Bukowski -- Reid Bush -- Julie Cadwallader-Staub -- Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Raymond Carver -- Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues) -- Michael Chitwood -- Amy M. Clark -- Billy Collins -- Nancy Couto -- Barbara Crooker -- Edward Denham -- Kate DiCamillo -- Emily Dickenson -- Kirsten Dierking -- Gregory Djanikian -- Susan Donnelly -- Stephen Dunn -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Snowstorm) -- Patricia Fargnoli -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Edward Field -- James Finnegan -- Chris Forhan -- Sarah Freligh -- David Lee Garrison -- Dobby Gibson -- Allen Ginsberg (A strange new college in Berkeley) -- Dana Gioia -- Natalie Goldberg -- Charles Goodrich -- Alvin Greenberg -- Linda Gregg -- John Haag -- John Haines -- Donald Hall -- Barbara Hamby -- Patricia Hampl -- W.C. Handy (Beale Street Blues) -- Phebe Hanson -- C.G. Hanzlicek -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Jim Harrison -- Robert Hass -- Linda M. Hasselstrom -- Tom Hennen -- Nancy Henry -- Edward Hirsch -- John Hollander -- Bill Holm -- Garrett Hongo -- Marie Howe -- David Huddle -- Robinson Jeffers -- Louis Jenkins -- Gary Johnson -- Rodney Jones -- Jessica Joyce.
Summary: An anthology of poetic works celebrates the American landscape with diverse selections by such contributors as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes indexes.

Julia Kasdorf -- Meg Kearney -- Jane Kenyon -- Galway Kinnell -- August Kleinzahler -- William Kloefkorn -- Ron Koertge -- Ted Kooser -- Maxine Kumin -- Donald Justice -- Charlie Langdon -- Gary L. Lark -- Dorianne Laux -- Emma Lazarus (Long Island Sound) -- Eleanor Lerman -- Philip Levine -- Brad Leithauser -- Gerald Locklin -- Jeanne Lohmann -- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow -- Phillip Lopate -- Freya Manfred -- Dan Masterson -- Sebastian Matthews -- William Matthews -- Linda McCarriston -- Dawn McDuffie -- Wesley McNair -- W.S. Merwin -- Corey Mesler -- Carolyn Miller -- Mark J. Mitchell -- Robert Morgan -- Malena Mörling -- Howard Moss -- Howard Nemerov -- William Notter -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Debra Nystrom -- Sharon Olds -- Sheila Packa -- Grace Paley -- Greg Pape -- Linda Pastan -- Alice N. Persons -- Marge Piercy -- Katha Pollitt -- Barbara Ras -- James Reiss -- Kenneth Rexroth -- Theodore Roethke -- John Santayana -- May Sarton -- Ellie Schoenfeld -- Philip Schultz -- Anne Sexton -- Harvey Shapiro -- Faith Shearin -- Julie Sheehan -- Deborah Slicer -- W.D. Snodgrass -- Gary Snyder -- William Stafford -- Ellen Steinbaum -- Terry Stevenson -- Joseph Stroud -- Joyce Sutphen -- May Swenson -- James Tate -- Sara Teasdale -- James Tracy -- David Tucker -- John Updike -- Mona Van Duyn -- David Wagoner -- Ronald Wallace -- Julene Tripp Weaver -- Fred Weil Jr. -- Walt Whitman -- Reed Whittemore -- Anne Pierson Wiese -- C.K. Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Christopher Wiseman -- Vincent Wixon -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Baron Wormser -- Charles Wright -- James Wright -- Kevin Young.

On the Road -- A Warm Summer -- The Place Where we Were Naked -- City Life -- 2X2X2 -- A Comforting Immensity -- A Sort of Rapture -- On the Avenue -- Snow -- Residential -- Good Work -- Out West -- Show Business -- Ocean Brine -- Never Expected to be There.

Poets include: Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Rick Agran -- Debra Allbery -- Ellen Bass -- Jeffrey Bean -- June Beisch -- Wendell Berry -- George Bilgere -- Michael Blumenthal -- Robert Bly -- Laure-Anne Bousselaar -- Jon Bowerman -- Marcia F. Brown -- Philip Bryant -- David Budbill -- Charles Bukowski -- Reid Bush -- Julie Cadwallader-Staub -- Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Raymond Carver -- Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues) -- Michael Chitwood -- Amy M. Clark -- Billy Collins -- Nancy Couto -- Barbara Crooker -- Edward Denham -- Kate DiCamillo -- Emily Dickenson -- Kirsten Dierking -- Gregory Djanikian -- Susan Donnelly -- Stephen Dunn -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Snowstorm) -- Patricia Fargnoli -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Edward Field -- James Finnegan -- Chris Forhan -- Sarah Freligh -- David Lee Garrison -- Dobby Gibson -- Allen Ginsberg (A strange new college in Berkeley) -- Dana Gioia -- Natalie Goldberg -- Charles Goodrich -- Alvin Greenberg -- Linda Gregg -- John Haag -- John Haines -- Donald Hall -- Barbara Hamby -- Patricia Hampl -- W.C. Handy (Beale Street Blues) -- Phebe Hanson -- C.G. Hanzlicek -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Jim Harrison -- Robert Hass -- Linda M. Hasselstrom -- Tom Hennen -- Nancy Henry -- Edward Hirsch -- John Hollander -- Bill Holm -- Garrett Hongo -- Marie Howe -- David Huddle -- Robinson Jeffers -- Louis Jenkins -- Gary Johnson -- Rodney Jones -- Jessica Joyce.

An anthology of poetic works celebrates the American landscape with diverse selections by such contributors as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

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