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 volume forges a new
path for him, as a poet of light verse. He writes—with his
characteristic combination of humor and insight—on love,
modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets
of daily life. Keillor’s verses are charming and playful,
locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human.