[Good Poems 01] • Good Poems for Hard Times by Keillor, Garrison -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Praise Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction 1 - KINDNESS TO SNAILS

Break of Day Happiness This Morning The Monks of St. John’s File in for Prayer Job (Job 28:28) Or Death and December Sonnet: “Rarely, Rarely Comest Thou, Spirit of Delight” the little horse is newlY A Poem for Emily For a Five-Year-Old For My Daughter in Reply to a Question The Goose Starting the Subaru at Five Below Day Bath

2 - SUCH AS IT IS MORE OR LESS

A Dialogue of Watching A Birthday Thoughts in a Garden Spring Unharvested The State of the Economy At the Arraignment from “Song of Myself ” Ice Storm Passengers The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb you can take it with you To David, About His Education Invitation Calling him back from layoff Working in the Rain My Father’s Lunch

3 - THIS LUST OF TENDERNESS

The Happiest Day ‘After dark vapours have oppressed our plains’ Children’s Hospital, Emergency Room The Longly-Weds Know In Answer to Your Query Toast Detail Waiting for a Train September Twelfth, 2001 The Altar Sonnet No. 6: Dearest, I never knew such loving There Comes the Strangest Moment Snowflake Somewhere I’ll Find You Feasting Song Yes The Dalliance of the Eagles After Love Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time

4 - DELIBERATE OBFUSCATION

A Spiral Notebook What’s in My Journal Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh Ode to My 1977 Toyota Internal Exile Burma-Shave Carnation Milk A Brief Lecture on Door Closers Sonnet XII: Why are we by all creatures waited on? Angels Passing Through a Small Town In Paris with You Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil

5 - THE SOUND OF A CAR

Seven Deadly Sins Teaching a Child the Art of Confession A Physics Things Any prince to any princess The courage that my mother had Please Mrs Butler To A Frustrated Poet the lesson of the moth Disappointment The Cure Upon Hearing About the Suicide of the Daughter of Friends

6 - HERE IT COMES

the con job Fareweel to A’ Our Scottish Fame Easter Morning A Million Young Workmen, 1915 The College Colonel. Ordinary Life To fight aloud, is very brave Analysis of Baseball Ode to American English High Water Mark After School on Ordinary Days Snow in the Suburbs Now Winter Nights Enlarge Happiness from Tender Buttons Classic Ballroom Dances Theater Ode on the Whole Duty Of Parents

7 - WHATEVER HAPPENS

The Benefits of Ignorance Bunthorne’s Song (from Patience) The Rules of Evidence Courtesy What the Uneducated Old Woman Told Me Proverbs of Hell To a Daughter Leaving Home No Longer A Teenager Prayer Minnesota Thanksgiving Berryman Mother, in Love at Sixty My Agent Says Afraid So The Yak High Plains Farming The Fish The Future Riveted All That Time My Husband Discovers Poetry The Poet’s Occasional Alternative The Unsaid Snapshot of a Lump Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness Last Days

8 - LET IT SPILL

Thelonious Monk The Discovery of Sex Lawyer The Prodigal Son’s Brother Calling Your Father Al and Beth The Meeting Nothing Is Lost The Planet on the Table It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank The Sunlight on the Garden too sweet For My Sister, Emigrating The Three Kings Not Only the Eskimos Where Go the Boats The Parade My Cup Affirmation A Singing Voice Since You Asked Inviting a Friend to Supper The Love Cook Soda Crackers That Silent Evening This Is How Memory Works “The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once”

9 - I FEEL OUR KINSHIP

Death Mask That’s the Sum of It Suck It Up The Day the Tree Fell Down White Autumn Naked Slow Children at Play Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter My brother’s in Wyoming . . . My Brother Still Life The Changing Light At the Fishhouses A Man In Maine The War in the Air In the Middle Are You Tired of Me, My Darling? On a Night of Snow Closing in on the Harvest Reconciliation Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord The Last Waltz Rye Whiskey Let Old Nellie Stay In Praise of My Bed Poem for the Family In Bed with a Book My Father Gets Up in the Middle of the Night to Watch an Old Movie A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Diner When Death Comes At My Funeral The Wish to Be Generous Last Poem

10 - SIMPLER THAN I COULD FIND WORDS FOR

Just Now Psalm 51 Dawn Revisited Crossing the Bar Morning Swim

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