Good Poems for Hard Times by Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keats, Erica Funkhouser, W.H. Auden, Sharon Olds, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Herman Melville, Hayden Carruth, Patricia Hampl, Carl Dennis, X.J. Kennedy, Carl Sandburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Berryman, Fleur Adcock, Philip Booth, Howard Nemerov, Mary Oliver, Liesl Mueller, Rita Dove, Lawrence Raab, Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, Robert Burns, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, John Donne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Garrison Keillor, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Bishop, Hilaire Belloc, Kate Light, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Billy Collins, Thomas Hardy, Jane Kenyon, Noël Coward, Louis MacNeice, Emily Dickinson, Grace Paley, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Galway Kinnell, David Ignatow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost

Good Poems for Hard Times
Good Poems

Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keats, Erica Funkhouser, W.H. Auden, Sharon Olds, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Herman Melville, Hayden Carruth, Patricia Hampl, Carl Dennis, X.J. Kennedy, Carl Sandburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Berryman, Fleur Adcock, Philip Booth, Howard Nemerov, Mary Oliver, Liesl Mueller, Rita Dove, Lawrence Raab, Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, Robert Burns, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, John Donne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Garrison Keillor, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Bishop, Hilaire Belloc, Kate Light, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Billy Collins, Thomas Hardy, Jane Kenyon, Noël Coward, Louis MacNeice, Emily Dickinson, Grace Paley, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Galway Kinnell, David Ignatow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost

344 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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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...