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Summary of 74 reviews
Moods
inspiring 75%
reflective 75%
funny 25%
hopeful 25%
sad 25%
Pace
medium 20%
fast 20%
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344 pages | first published 2005
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Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing a...Book Information
Good Poems for Hard Times
Hilaire Belloc, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Robert Burns, Noël Coward, Fleur Adcock, Maxine Kumin, Patricia Hampl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, E.E. Cummings, John Keats, Louis MacNeice, David Ignatow, Philip Booth, Wendell Berry, Jane Kenyon, John Berryman, Mary Oliver, X.J. Kennedy, Liesl Mueller, Jim Harrison, William Blake, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Kenneth Rexroth, Thomas Hardy, W.S. Merwin, John Donne, Carl Dennis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, Garrison Keillor, Sharon Olds, Stephen Dobyns, Hayden Carruth, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Kate Light, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Carl Sandburg, Donald Hall, Lawrence Raab, Stephen Dunn, Howard Nemerov, Rita Dove, Galway Kinnell, Erica Funkhouser, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Hamilton Adair
344 pages | first published 2005
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ISBN/UID: None
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing a...Book information
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Community Reviews
Summary of 74 reviews
Moods
inspiring 75%
reflective 75%
funny 25%
hopeful 25%
sad 25%
Pace
medium 20%
fast 20%
Plot- or character-driven?
N/A: 100%Strong character development?
N/A: 100%Loveable characters?
N/A: 100%Diverse cast of characters?
N/A: 100%Flaws of characters a main focus?
N/A: 100%Average rating