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Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing

6 reviews
Ted Kooser, Steve Cox

Bison Books, 2006

Friends Share their Secrets
Imagine sitting down for coffee (or tea) with the U.S. Poet Laureate (who just won a Pulitzer) and a well respected author, editor and publisher and having them tell you how you can write better. This book does it. Conversational, fun, and full of wisdom and encouragement. Will you snag your Pulitzer? Probably not. But, if you take these guys' advice and start writing, there's a good chance that ...

Braided Creek

6 reviews
Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser

Copper Canyon Press, 2003

Braided Creek
Braided Creek was my introduction to Ted Kooser after hearing him interviewed and reading selected pieces of his work on the radio. He captured my attention. Braided Creek is a vehicle for sage conversation, discourse, disclosure and affection between pals Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison. The individual verse is short and haiku-like in its clarity and imagry. But for it being written by only two ...

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

29 reviews
Ted Kooser

Bison Books, 2007

A gentle introduction to the art of writing poetry
This is not an intense workbook to poetry nor a rigid list of rules to follow. Rather, it is a gentle conversation with the author that pleasantly guides you along the finer points of writing poetry. Interspersed with kind humor, we read sample poems that illustrate various aspects of poetry from voice to how to submit for publication. It reminds me by its simplicity of "Elements of Style" ...

The Blizzard Voices

5 reviews
Ted Kooser

Bison Books, 2006

Voices from the Storm
This book introduces us to some of the people affected by one of Nebraska's huge snowstorms. With Kooser's permission, I presented a readers' theatre version of "Blizzard Voices" before he published the book. The AAUW audience in Florida had trouble suspending their disbelief, but the voices were so strong they were moved in spite of themselves. I've visited the Plainview, Nebraska, cemetery ...

Delights & Shadows

26 reviews
Ted Kooser

Copper Canyon Press, 2004

The clear speaking clear thinking poet
This is clear- speaking clear- thinking poetry. Kooser advocates communication in poetry. He advocates thinking about the needs of the reader.He has said that as poetry is not so important for most people he tends to write short poems that they can take in in a relatively small period of time. He is the opposite of the outrageous, self- important demanding Dylan Thomas-like poet, or the exuberant ...

Valentines

1 review
Ted Kooser

University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Love poetry
"Valentines" is not the typical Valentine's Day sentimental poetry. The poems are 'homespun' and reflect the history of the prairie. Each poem is illustrated by line drawings of Robert Hanna. Mr. Kooser wrote and sent one poem each year on postcards to women friends for 21 years. This book is a compilation of them. Each poem touched me in a different way. Marvelous.

Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Pitt Poetry Series)

3 reviews
Ted Kooser

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

Delightful
Ted Kooser is the poet for the rest of us. Mr. Kooser shuns intellectual poetry, the kind that makes you feel you need an interpreter to understand it. His poems are down-to-earth, rooted in an intense love for the simple pleasures of life. He lives on a farm in Nebraska and his work resonates with images from this rural lifestyle. This was the first book of poetry I willfully sought out and ...

Winter Morning Walks : 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison (Poetry Series)

6 reviews
Ted Kooser

Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2001

To Know That We Are Not Alone
This book, by our current Poet Laureate, is as fine a book of modern poetry as you can hope for. During his treatment for cancer, the author is given medication that makes his skin sun-sensitive. So, in order to maintain his daily habit of walking the country roads of Nebraska for exercise, he has to do it before the sun comes up. To allay the inherent loneliness, he decides to send a friend, ...

How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers

4 reviews
American Poetry & Literacy Project, Academy of American Poets

Dover Publications, 2006

Must have!
My daughters 8 and 9 loved raeding the book. Thye would read it out to each other. They both used it for school. I loved it!

Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)

9 reviews
Ted Kooser

Bison Books, 2004

"Over and over again."
I am not the sort of person who revisits books. I tend to move on to things that are new since there is so much out there calling to be read. But with Koozer's "Local Wonders" I have had to make an exception. I have read certain sections of it 3 times already and find them as compelling each time. This collection of four seasonal essays contains so many examples of wonderful writing that I am ...

Dreams in Dry Places (Great Plains Photography)
Roger Bruhn

University of Nebraska Press, 1990

Against a stark horizon in a harsh climate, settlers in Nebraska everywhere erected monuments to their optimism. The buildings pictured in Dreams in Dry Places are not just famous landmarks like the State Capitol but also humble farmhouses, barns, grain elevators, courthouses, banks, churches, stores, and theaters. They represent every kind of architecture to be found in Nebraska--folk, high-style, commercial, residential, pioneer, and modern; ...

Weather Central (Pitt Poetry Series)

3 reviews
Ted Kooser

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994

Weather Central
Ted Kooser's poetry is lovely. "Sparklers" on page 79 is a beautifully spare poem that really spoke to me.

Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

3 reviews
Ted Kooser

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980

great collection
Ted Kooser is the poet of the common man. He is known as a regionalist, though his poems speak to people from all over the country. And his selected poems show you exactly the skill of this poet. Kooser is the master of the short poem and of the simple poem. He is a pleasure to read. This collection contains such fine poems such as "Selecting a Reader", "Spring Plowing", "A Summer Night", ...

The New Writer's Handbook: Volume 2: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career (New ...

Scarletta Press, 2008

On the heels of The New Writer's Handbook 2007 , the first in a series and winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award in the career category, comes the 2008 edition, edited again by the experienced and industry-savvy Philip Martin. It contains entirely new material (and mostly new contributors, with a few repeats). The content will mimic its successful predecessor in structure and eclectic approach. With approximately sixty articles, ...

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