Published WorksTed Kooser has published a number of books of poetry.
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Flying at Night | 2005 | Flying at Night is a new compilation from University of Pittsburg Press that will include poems from Sure Signs and One World at a Time. This new book will be out in early 2005. | Excerpt 1 : Flying at Night |
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual | 2005 | Much more than a guidebook to making 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. | |
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Delights and Shadows | 2004 | For more than thirty years Ted Kooser has written poems that deftly bring dissimilar things into telling unities. Throughout a long and distinguished writing career he has worked toward clarity and accessibility, making a poetry as fresh and spontaneous as a good watercolor. A gyroscope balanced between a child's hands, a jar of buttons that recalls generations of women, and a bird briefly witnessed outside a window — each reveals the remarkable within an otherwise ordinary world. — Poetry Daily |
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Braided Creek | 2003 | There are poems on the natural world, aging, dying, friendship, love and eros. There is abundant humor. ... There also is distilled wisdom. — Houston Chronicle |
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Local Wonders, Seasons in the Bohemian Alps |
2002 | “This is a heartfelt, plainspoken book about slowing down and appreciating the world around you.”
— Janet Maslin, CBS Sunday Morning |
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Winter Morning Walks, 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison | 2000 | ||
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Weather Central | 1994 | Kooser's virtues are those traditionally ascribed to the Midwest: plainspokenness, modesty, common sense. He sits on his porch, uninterested in academic cant or the fashions of poetic schools, and takes in the world around, praising its quiet beauty....Kooser has always been an archeologist of sorts. An abandoned schoolhouse, a deserted forge, an old stoneware crock — all set him wondering, trying to reconstruct the lives of those who used them. Even in his earliest published poems, the elegiac note came naturally to Kooser, both celebration and lament for a way of life that was disappearing as farm families moved to the city.
— The Bloomsbury Review |
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The Blizzard Voices | 1986 | A dramatized poetic narrative of the devastation unleashed on Nebraska Territory by the great blizzard of January 12, 1888. Drawn from the reminiscences of the survivors: the men and women who were teaching school, working the land, tending the house... when the storm arrived and changed their lives forever. Illustrated with twelve line drawings by Tom Pohrt. — from the jacket |
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| One World at a Time | 1985 | In the closing poem of this new collection, a spider brushes globes of dew from her web, "one world at a time." Since Ted Kooser's poems first began to appear in print, some twenty years ago, they have moved, as he has said, "from job to job, from love to love," with great patience and care, as if each poem were a miniature world that needed completion before being left to stand alone. — from the jacket |
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| Sure Signs | 1980 | "I found it impossible to put Sure Signs down until I had finished the entire book. It was like sitting next to a box of chocolates before dinner...a collection alternately delightful and mysterious." — Dana Gioia, The Hudson Review |
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| Not Coming to be Barked At | 1976 | Buy at Amazon(Out of Print) | ||
| A Local Habitation & A Name | 1974 | Buy at Amazon(Out of Print) | ||
| Official Entry Blank | 1969 | (Out of Print) |