Good Poems, American Places. A generous selection of poems from The Writers Almanac in which poets express their love of American scenes ---- Kenneth Rexroth in the High Sierras, May Swenson in New York, Maxine Kumin's horse farm in New Hampshire, Jim Harrison on the Arizona desert, Barbara Hamby's ode to hardware stores, road poems, poems about big cities and the vast plains and the ocean shore, including chapters entitled "Good Work," "A Sort of Rapture," "2x2x2," "Out West," and "On the Avenue". Selected with an introduction by Garrison Keillor.

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