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An anthology of poems celebrating poetry's ability to connect us like family.

Contains more than 450 English and American humorous poems including nonsense verse, fantasy, parody, and zany improvisations. Among the writers represented are Ogden Nash, Don Marquis, Lewis Carroll, Hilaire Belloc, John Updike, Samuel Hoffenstein, Edward Lear, and Olver Herford.

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written...

Emily Dickinson saw fewer than twenty of her 1,775 poems published during her lifetime: when she died in 1886, her obscurity as a poet was nearly total. Now widely recognized as one of the great American poets of the nineteenth century, she is one of a handful from any period whose enduring stature in the world of letters is matched by the loyal affection of generation after generation of readers. In this distinguished addition to The Essential Poets...

An illustrated collection of Mother Goose rhymes, lullabies, and contemporary verses that celebrate special times in a child's first years.

Dave Oliphant's "Backtracking" explores the influences and inspirations that shaped the work of this prolific American poet. The impact of Spanish culture on the poet is featured at the beginning of the collection. His wife serves as the inspiration of an ongoing series of poems that celebrates the passion and mystery of their 37-year love affair. Oliphant also pays tribute to his forebears and remembers literary and musical figures as important to...

Contains poems by major poets such as Chaucer, Milton, Pope, Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost.

A collection of poems by twentieth-century American poet, Robert Hass, that reflect the beauty and energy of the physical world.

The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were indexed in the Ninth Edition of The Columbia Granger's...