O, What a Luxury

Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound

By: Garrison Keillor

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Paperback | 1 March 2015

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O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound is the first poetry collection written by Garrison Keillor, the celebrated radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. Although he has edited several anthologies of his favorite poems, this collection of his very own poems astounds us with its breadth and variety, its wit and wisdom. He is a master of light verse, writing on love, marriage, modernity, nostalgia, perversity, publicity, politics, religion, birthdays, fatherhood, and other facets of daily life; his subjects range from highbrow to lowbrow: Michigan to Kansas, Sunset Boulevard to Times Square, Beethoven to Elvis, chocolate bacon cake to onion soup. His voice is utterly American, his scope entirely universal. These charming, playful verses find sublime song within the humdrum of being human.

Industry Reviews

"Keillor writes excellent limericks, most not dirty." --Booklist

"Keillor is very clearly a genius. His range and stamina alone are incredible . . . he has the genuine wisdom of . . . Mark Twain." --Slate

"America's foremost humorist and social pundit . . . Keillor's running commentary about the human condition has the uncanny ability to home in on the pulse of America." --PBS

"Keillor has a way of reconciling seeming contradictions. A purveyor of all things folksy and down-home, he is a highly cultivated, worldly man." --AARP

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