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Dana Gioia has a very sensible and positive review of Garrison Keillor\u2019s Good Poems <\/i> in the April 2004 issue of Poetry <\/i> . Gioia admits that he at first reacted sniffily at the title and the editor of this anthology, but he says that over several months of reading the poetry he came to appreciate and approve of Keillor\u2019s work. Keillor\u2019s aesthetics could not be more different from that of the writing schools; instead of density, ambiguity, ambivalence, Keillor says that a good poem is a memorable one, and that a memorable poem is mainly one that tells a memorable story: \u201cA story is easier to remember than a puzzle.\u201d Gioia suggests that Keillor\u2019s collection, which were compiled from poems he had read on NPR\u2019s \u201cWriter\u2019s Almanac,\u201d is of poems that touch a chord with ordinary life, poetry to \u201cread in normal circumstances.\u201d In short, this is poetry that does not see itself elevated above the mass of language but sees itself as embedded in the give and take of ordinary speech. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana Gioia has a very sensible and positive review of Garrison Keillor\u2019s Good Poems in the April 2004 issue of Poetry . Gioia admits that he at first reacted sniffily at the title and the editor of this anthology, but he says that over several months of reading the poetry he came to appreciate and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"yoast_head":"\n