Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor (Abridged)

The poetry-loving host of public radio's The Writer's Almanac collects favorite poems from the show and reads them with a number of contemporary poets.

Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds.

Some po...