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Author Kooser, Ted

Title Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 / Ted Kooser
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (142 pages)
Series Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
Contents [pt. 1]. Sure signs -- Selecting a reader -- First snow -- An old photograph -- The constellation Orion -- The salesman -- Old soldiers' home -- Self-portrait at thirty-nine -- Christmas Eve -- Visiting mountains -- The leaky faucet -- A frozen stream -- Living near the rehabilitation home -- Late February -- A drive in the country -- Spring plowing -- Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen -- Sure signs -- A summer night -- In a country cemetery in Iowa -- The man with the hearing aid -- The very old -- Walking beside a creek -- Book club -- At the end of the weekend -- Uncle Adler -- In the corners of fields -- How to make rhubarb wine -- Late lights in Minnesota -- The afterlife -- A widow -- So this is Nebraska -- Fort Robinson -- How to foretell a change in the weather -- Snow fence -- In an old apple orchard -- An empty place -- After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet -- The grandfather cap -- Shooting a farmhouse -- Beer bottle -- Sleeping cat -- North of Alliance -- Late September -- Carrie -- For a friend -- Grandfather -- Looking for you, Barbara -- Pocket poem -- Moles -- Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93 -- Advice -- After my grandmother's funeral -- A hot night in wheat country -- Five P.M -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The blind always come as such a surprise
Furnace -- West window -- Boarding house -- A letter from Aunt Belle -- At the bait stand -- The tattooed lady -- A death at the office -- There is always a little wind -- The Widow Lester -- Houses at the edge of town -- The old woman -- A place in Kansas -- Tom Ball's barn -- My grandfather dying -- The Red Wing Church -- Highway 30 -- Birthday -- The failed suicide -- The goldfish floats to the top of his life -- They had torn off my face at the office -- Year's end -- New Year's Day -- Walking to work -- Sunday morning -- [pt. 2]. One world at a time -- Flying at night -- A fencerow in early March -- Just now -- A birthday card -- In the basement of the Goodwill Store -- Camera -- A room in the past -- In January, 1962 -- Tillage marks -- A child's grave marker -- Father -- At midnight -- Central -- The fan in the window -- Myrtle -- Daddy longlegs -- Good-bye -- The giant slide -- A roadside shrine in Kansas -- Decoration day -- A Monday in May -- A buffalo skull -- Laundry -- The mouse -- Ladder -- Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska -- A patch of sunlight -- Carp -- At the center -- A sunset -- The ride -- At nightfall -- At the office early -- Cleaning a bass -- An empty shotgun shell -- A quarter moon just before dawn -- A letter -- Latvian neighborhood -- The Voyager II satellite -- The witness -- As the President spoke -- The pitch -- The sigh -- The onion woman -- Hobo jungle -- An August night -- The urine specimen -- Geronimo's mirror -- Porch swing in September
Summary Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. In Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier works, Sure Signs 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
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Subject Poetry
Poetics.
poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- American -- General.
Poetics
Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822991076
0822991071