false 139984 9 4 239229 1556592019 9781556592010 58 <![CDATA[Delights and Shadows]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026022m/239229.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026022s/239229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239229.Delights_and_Shadows 4.09 322 Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before was a merely ordinary world.

"Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance."-Poetry

Ted Kooser is the author of eight collections of poems and a prose memoir. He lives on a small farm in rural Nebraska.

]]> 139984 4.15 1104 212 2004 239231 0803259786 9780803259782 42 <![CDATA[The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026023m/239231.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026023s/239231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239231.The_Poetry_Home_Repair_Manual_Practical_Advice_for_Beginning_Poets 4.10 176 The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts.</div><div> </div><div>Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.</div>]]> 139984 4.15 1104 212 2005 239234 0822958775 9780822958772 14 <![CDATA[Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Pitt Poetry Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026024m/239234.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026024s/239234.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239234.Flying_At_Night_Poems_1965_1985 4.17 103 In Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier works, Sure Signs (1980) and One World at a Time (1985). Taken together or read one at a time, these poems clearly show why William Cole, writing in the Saturday Review, called Ted Kooser "a wonderful poet," and why Peter Stitt, writing in the Georgia Review, proclaimed him "a skilled and cunning writer. . . . An authentic 'poet of the American people.'"

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In the end, what makes life meaningful for Kooser are the ways in which his neighbors care for one another and how an afternoon walking with an old dog, or baking a pie, or decorating the house for Christmas can summon memories of his Iowa childhood. This writer is a seer in the truest sense of the word, discovering the extraordinary within the ordinary, the deep beneath the shallow, the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.

</div>]]> 139984 4.15 1104 212 2002 239237 0887483364 9780887483363 9 <![CDATA[Winter Morning Walks : 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison (Poetry Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026027m/239237.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026027s/239237.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239237.Winter_Morning_Walks_100_Postcards_to_Jim_Harrison 4.42 76 139984 4.15 1104 212 2001 239235 0822953137 9780822953135 7 <![CDATA[Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026026m/239235.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026026s/239235.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239235.Sure_Signs_New_and_Selected_Poems 4.12 56 139984 4.15 1104 212 1980 2341718 0803217706 9780803217706 20 <![CDATA[Valentines]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2341718.Valentines 3.95 55 Valentines collects Kooser’s twenty-two years of Valentine’s Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. </div><div> </div><div>Kooser’s valentine poems encompass all the facets of the holiday: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing. Some of the poems use the word valentine, others do not, but there is never any doubt as to the purpose of Kooser’s creations.</div>]]> 139984 4.15 1104 212 2008 1087794 082295527X 9780822955276 4 <![CDATA[Weather Central (Pitt Poetry Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180885396m/1087794.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180885396s/1087794.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1087794.Weather_Central 4.12 41 139984 4.15 1104 212 1994 239233 0803259638 9780803259638 9 <![CDATA[The Blizzard Voices]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026024m/239233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026024s/239233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239233.The_Blizzard_Voices 3.89 38 The Blizzard Voices is based on the actual reminiscences of the survivors as recorded in documents from the time and written reminiscences from years later. Here are the haunting voices of the men and women who were teaching school, working the land, and tending the house when the storm arrived and changed their lives forever.</div>]]> 139984 4.15 1104 212 1986 239232 0803278322 9780803278325 2 <![CDATA[Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026024m/239232.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173026024s/239232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239232.Writing_Brave_and_Free_Encouraging_Words_for_People_Who_Want_to_Start_Writing 3.93 15
Unlike “how to write” books that dwell on the angst and the agony of the trade, Writing Brave and Free is upbeat and accessible. The focus here is the work itself: how to get started and how to keep going, and never is heard a discouraging word such as “no,” “not,” or “never.” Because of the wealth of their experience, the authors can offer the sort of practical publishing advice that novices need and yet rarely find. Organized in brief, user-friendly chapters—on everything from sensory details to a work environment, from creating suspense to revising and taking criticism—the book allows aspiring (and practicing) writers to dip in anywhere and find something of value.

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