Good Poems for Hard Times by 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

Good Poems for Hard Times
Good Poems

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 pub 2005 (view 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...