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    <body><![CDATA[I haven’t read much poetry lately. I’d “forgotten how big,” how restorative it can be. I’m so glad that I ended my evening with Anne Sexton's “Welcome Morning” rather than finishing the day with “American Idol.” A good poem makes me want to read more and to write. Whether or not I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22671362">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great anthology! There are poems in here for just about every mood and situation which you could encounter. <br/><br/>As a Keillor fan, I can imagine him reading these. The public radio station to which I listen does not carry <strong>The Writer's Almanac</strong>, so I have never heard him read any of this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63856650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Emily Dickenson wrote, &quot;If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?&quot;<br/><br/>Very few ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62155852">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading this one off and on for four or five months; it's not to be digested all at once!  The poems Keillor chooses are, on average, sentimental and accessible, and I mean that in the best way.  They are poems that bridge the gap between your heart and the poet's, rather than separating y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62152404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Good Poems</em> is an accurately titled book.  It is a thematically arranged anthology of poems that have been featured on <em>The Writer's Almanac</em>.  Keillor divides the collection into categories such as &quot;O Lord,&quot; &quot;Lovers,&quot; &quot;Yellow,&quot; and &quot;The End.&quot;  I really liked thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35552851">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am so not a Garrison Keillor fan--While his radio show contains some good nuggets, more often than not the stories ramble for an eternity before reaching a mediocre punchline. However, I love this anthology of poems selected by Keillor. I recommend it to anyone who thinks that poetry doesn't reson...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75759770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;This is not Introduction to Poetry (MWF 9am<br/>                    Chemistry 150, 3 cr) and I am not the Maud Hill <br/>                    Hallowell Professor of American Lit, and your name<br/>                    isn't Daphne Foxcroft. It's simply a book of poems...<br/>                ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64971781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed reading aloud one poem a night before turning off the light and going to sleep, Andy says we have to do it that way, same as Writer's Almanac, which we can get on the radio when we are Up North, but not downstate, so this is fun. Feel like I should introduce each selection with the theme son...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/100132">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is not much I enjoy more on radio than the five minutes alloted to Garrison Keillor mornings and afternoons for Writer's Almanac.  I like the born on this day and/or died on this day short bios he offers and I love the poems he reads from about anywhere in recorded time.  <u>Good Poems</u> is a colle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15252647">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So, poetry is this amazing juice, yet we take no time to squeeze the necessary fruit.   Doesn't fit into real life.<br/><br/>Ahh, but the work is done for you.  Right here.   Keillor gives it by the gallon.    Case in point ... Wendell Berry's Peace of Wild Things.<br/><br/>Drink up. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book by Garrison Keillor has trurned me on to poetry. I read apoem a day simply for the joy of language and the pleasure of poetic imagery.  I suppose one should specialize in such a vast subject but frankly, I find joy and pleasure in exploring.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the first in the series before Good Poems for Hard Times. I found the structure less appealing than it's sequel because it featured large general groupings of poems--Lovers, Resurrection and Yellow--as opposed to smaller, funnier groupings--This Lust of Tenderness, Kindness To Snails a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7084226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this collection of poems! Since they were originally chosen for people who are just going about their life while listening to the radio, they are easy to understand and connect with.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like poetry before I read this book, but it made me a believer. Let your mind be changed about poetry! Keillor has a great sense for what makes... well, good poems. ]]></body>
    
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