Publisher, HighBridge Audiobooks (July 1991)

The favorite poems from Garrison Keillor's daily radio program The Writer's Almanac by Stafford, Shakespeare, Oliver, Olds, Dickinson, Don Marquis, and many others---about letters, love, kindness, animal life, etcetera. Each poem meant to "make a small explosion of clarity in the mind."

Includes:

Ge Mig En Dag (Scandinavian traditional)
Abecedary (Thomas Disch)
Old Mother Hubbard (traditional)
Frankenstein (Edward Field)
Names of Horses (Donald Hall)
To One Who Asked Me Why I Love J.G. (Ephelia)
What I Learned from My Mother (Julie Kasdorf)
When Adam was Created (anonymous)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (William Shakespeare)
Casey Jones (anonymous)
I Think to Live (Emily Dickenson)
Fallacy of Experience (William Harmon)
Crocodile (William Jay Smith)
Spring (Mary Oliver)
I Go Back to May, 1937 (Sharon Olds)
Language of Crows (Louis Jenkins)