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Wobegon Poets: A Prairie Poem Companion
GARRISON KEILLOR’S latest book is a collection of poems selected from the ones he has read on his daily five-minute show "The Writer’s Almanac," which airs Ofl public radio. These are poems, he says, that can make people "stop chewing their toasted muffins and turn up the radio,’ The range extends from classics (Shakespeare, Auden, Yeats) to a host of delightful discoveries among contemporary writers such as Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Lisel Mueller and Donald Hall.
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