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Good poems for hard times, selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor

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Good poems for hard times

selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor

Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver

tBrief lecture on door closers, Clemens Stark, Sonnet IX:, Why are we by all creatures waited on?, John Donne, Angels, Maurya Simon, Passing through a small town, David Shumate, In Paris with you, James Fenton, Wedding poem for Schele and Phil, Bill Holm, Seven dealy sins, Virigina Hamilton Adair, Teaching a child the art of confession, David Shumate, Physics, Heather McHugh, Things, Lisel Mueller, Any prince to any princess, Adrian Henri, Courage that my mother had, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Please Mrs Butler, Allan Ahlberg, To a frustrated poet, R. J. Ellman, lesson of the moth, Don Marquis, Disappointment, Tony Hoagland, Cure, Ginger Andrews, Upon hearing about the suicide of the daughter of friends, Jo McDougall, con job, Charles Bukowski --tFarewell to a' our Scottish fame, Robert Birns, Easter morning, Jim Harrison, Million young workmen, 1915, Carl Sandburg, College colonel, Herman Melville, Ordinary life, Barbara Crooker, To fight aloud is very brave, Emily Dickinson, Nanlysis of baseball, May Swenson, Ode to American English, Marbara Hamby, High water mark, David Shumate, After school on ordinary days, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Snow in the suburbs, Thomas Hardy, Now winter nights enlarge, Thomas Campion, Happiness, Michael Van Walleghen, from, Tender buttons, Gertrude Stein, Classic ballroom dances, Charles Simic, Ode on the whole duty of parents, Frances Cornford, Benefits of ignorance, Hal SIrowitz, Bunthorne's song, W. S. Gilbert, Rules of evidence, Lee Robinson, Courtesy, Hilaire Belloc --