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Title: Good Poems by Garrison Keillor, Robert Bly, Roy, Jr. Blount, David Budbill, Billy Collins, Hayden Carruth ISBN: 1-56511-693-3 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It's an anthology, but don't let that frighten you...
Comment: These kinds of major-press anthologies (especially when put together by a celebrity) tend to be worthless: either heartwarming sop (i.e. "Poems that have Inspired Me") or the same English-class warhorses trotted out again. So I thumbed through "Good Poems" and was surprised to find...good poems; a mix of the standards (Frost, Dickinson, Shakespeare), modern academics (Oliver, Simic), and poets who seldom appear in these kinds of anthologies (Carver, Ferlinghetti, Bukowski.) Well-selected, thoughtfully placed, and (thank God) fun to read, this collection is a real jewel; a perfect gift for someone who thinks they could never like poetry.
Even if the poetry was less than stellar, this book would be worth buying just for Keillor's introduction. Instead of gushing empty platitudes, he takes a hard look at what makes a poem good (as opposed to just technically proficient.) Anyone interested in writing poetry should do themselves a favor and read it (Personally, I'm thrilled that someone else thinks Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg are overrated, though I have to admit T.S. Eliot is growing on me...)
Rating: 5
Summary: Title Says it All
Comment: I don't normally read poetry. It's one genre I'm very ignorant about but I like Garrison Keillor's story telling and figured I might like the same type of poetry he likes. I was right! Although I didn't enjoy every single one (and who can expect to in a compillation of more than four hundred pages) but I did enjoy or take meaning away from enough of them to count this book as a page turner.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better "Good" than "Best"
Comment: Keillor's title seems intended to suggest a contrast with the "Best American Poetry" series, and what a contrast it is! Whereas BAP routinely and inexplicably celebrates dreck (it's a scandal how many terrific poems it excludes in favor of the mediocre and that most banal of banalities, the avant-garde), Keillor's anthology is full of readable, memorable, enjoyable poems--poems that can honestly be said to be _valuable_. How refreshing it is, too, to see poems by the likes of Lisel Mueller and Robert Morgan, poets whose work has long been highly lauded but who nevertheless get overlooked by most anthologists. Rita Dove may be right to complain about the small number of minority voices (see her letter in the June/July 2004 issue of Poetry magazine), but this is still the best general-interest poetry anthology to come along since Czeslaw Milosz's BOOK OF LUMINOUS THINGS.
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Title: 3 Doz. Poems: From the Writer's Almanac by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 1565111419 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry by BILLY COLLINS ISBN: 0812968875 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Americans' Favorite Poems by Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz, Favorite Poem Project ISBN: 0393048209 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology by Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz ISBN: 0393010740 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0375755195 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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