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Forsberg, Michael. Harrison, Jim Jackson, Fleda Brown Kooser, Ted Kooser, Ted. Stone, Dan.Kooser, Ted.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2004
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize winner and best selling poet Ted Kooser calls attention to the intimacies of life through commonplace objects and occurrences: an elderly couple sharing a sandwich is a study in transcendent love, while a tattered packet of spinach seeds calls forth innate human potential. This long-awaited collection from the former U.S. Poet Laureate--ten years in the making--is rich with quiet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014
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Summary: Built on a treeless yard by a family who cleared away all the sprouting trees on the property, a house is eventually abandoned and left to deteriorate on a lot that is gradually overrun by wild trees, in a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triumph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2005
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Summary: "A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in a tree, or an empty nest perched on a leafless branch? As poet Connie Wanek alludes to in her afterword--a lively dialogue with former US Poet Laureate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2000
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Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROForsberg, Michael.
Contents: Foreword / Ted Kooser -- Chasing ghosts / Michael Forsberg -- Me and Mike / Dan O'Brien -- Settling an unsettled land: introduction -- Ocean of grass: The northern plains -- Life among potholes -- Water -- Field journal: Black-footed ferrets -- Wind -- Next year country: The southern plains -- Field journal: Blue creek -- Lion -- The ocean below the grass -- Field journal: Lesser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.80022 FORHarrison, Jim
Summary: Presents brief poems originally exchanged by the longtime friends in their letters to each other, exploring such topics as the natural world, aging, and the nature of poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2003
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Stone, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Endowment for the Arts 2006