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The Great Indoors

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I LOVED this book. I read a lot of poetry and don't normally come out with a lot of favorites, but he has given me a favorite poem here - Success Story. All of the poems are very cool and readable! (not too Irish too if you were wondering)

I've heard Garrison Keillor read "Success Story" and "Civilized Atmospheres" on the Writer's Almanac and really loved both poems. They're both in this book, as is "Mysteries", a really funny and memorable poem that wound up in the Oxford Book of American Poetry which is kind of amazing since it features orangutans. My favorite of all the poems in this book is "My Friends". I really like the ending where it reads as follows: "But I take comfort in a dreamlike kind of consciousness/in which every breath is like my last breath/ and all my friends are quiet as brides/ skating along on sheets of ice."