62+ Good Poems Collected By Garrison Keillor

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Verses Lyrical Vulgar Pathetic Profound is the first poetry collection written by Garrison Keillor. Although he has edited several anthologies of his favorite poems this volume forges a new path for him as a poet of light verse. Garrison Keillor born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7 1942 in Anoka Minnesota is an American author storyteller humorist columnist musician satirist and radio personality. Here readers will find solace in poems that are bracing and courageous organized into categories such as Such As It Is More or Less and Let It Spill.

Every day people tune in to The Writers Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. Some are wise some are funny some are soothing or heartwarming. Garrison Keillor occupies such a special place in American letters that the writer to whom he is most frequently compared is the legendary Mark Twain.