77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor (English) Paperback Book

Description: 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor Collection of love poems by celebrated American author. Garrison Keillor reads (or sings) all the poems in the book on two free CDs inside, with music by Rich Dworsky. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorise Shakespeares Sonnet No. 29, When in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast stateA" for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude - Garrison Keillor. Notes A debut poetry collection from the author of Lake Wobegon Days. Includes 2 CDs of Keillor reading (or singing) all his poems. Author Biography Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of radios A Prairie Home Companion and The Writers Almanac, and wrote the screenplay for Robert Altmans film A Prairie Home Companion in which he also appears. Born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, he graduated from the University of Minnesota, and lives in St Paul with his wife and daughter. Apart from a six-year radio silence, Garrison Keillor has hosted A Prairie Home Companion since its debut in 1974, chronicling life in a Minnesotan small town in his weekly monologues, the inspiration for his Lake Wobegon stories and novels. His many books include Lake Wobegon Days (1985), The Book of Guys (1993), Love Me (2003) and Homegrown Democrat (2004), and two anthologies drawing on his Writers Almanac poem selections, Good Poems (2002) and Good Poems for Hard Times (2005). 77 Love Sonnets (Common Good Books, USA, 2009; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2011) is his first collection of his own poetry; he reads all the poems on two CDs issued separately from the book by Highbridge in the US but included free with Bloodaxes UK edition. Review If youve occasionally wished that the news from Lake Wobegon contained more erotic poetry - and really, who hasnt? - then youll want to get your hands on Garrison Keillors 77 Love Sonnets - Keillors original poems of courtship, heartbreak and frank carnal desire, all of it well suited to the authors folksy, avuncular voice - New York Times. The book proves that the sonnet is still alive and kicking. Keillor enlarges our sense of what the old 14-liner can do - After years as a poetry impresario, Garrison Keillor has blown his cover. It wont be possible to think of him anymore as only an engaging radio personality, a diverting humorist, an able novelist, essayist and political commentator, a friend of other peoples verse, but as a poet of force and originality himself, a fresh and yet familiar voice to be reckoned with - X.J. Kennedy, Contemporary Poetry Review. Review Quote If youve occasionally wished that the news from Lake Wobegon contained more erotic poetry - and really, who hasnt? - then youll want to get your hands on Garrison Keillors 77 Love Sonnets - Keillors original poems of courtship, heartbreak and frank carnal desire, all of it well suited to the authors folksy, avuncular voice - New York Times. The book proves that the sonnet is still alive and kicking. Keillor enlarges our sense of what the old 14-liner can do - After years as a poetry impresario, Garrison Keillor has blown his cover. It wont be possible to think of him anymore as only an engaging radio personality, a diverting humorist, an able novelist, essayist and political commentator, a friend of other peoples verse, but as a poet of force and originality himself, a fresh and yet familiar voice to be reckoned with - X.J. Kennedy, Contemporary Poetry Review. Details ISBN1852249005 Author Garrison Keillor Pages 96 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Year 2011 ISBN-10 1852249005 ISBN-13 9781852249007 Media Book Playing time 90 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 811.54 Birth 1942 Language English Edition 2nd Format Paperback Publication Date 2011-01-27 UK Release Date 2011-01-27 NZ Release Date 2011-01-27 Edition Description 2nd ed. Audience General AU Release Date 2011-05-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145093368;

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