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Ted Kooser
The publication of Ted Kooser’s Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems is a literary event of major importance. Long admired and praised by other poets, Kooser is also accessible to…
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Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life's shared experiences and emotions-illness, aging, beauty, and love.
Raft
is our fourth collection of poetry…
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Carla Ketner
For young readers, this biography of poet Ted Kooser is a celebration of the power of stories and of finding oneself through words.
Mary K. Stillwell
This book finally provides a fuller and more complex picture of a writer who, perhaps more than any other, has brought the Great Plains and the Midwest, lived large and…
A collection of poems, which encompass the facets of Valentine’s day: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness…
A collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the blizzard of January 12, 1888. This book is based on the actual reminiscences of the survivors…
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This selection from five decades of Kooser’s work illustrates his intense and intimate vision of everyday American life.
Ted Kooser is among the country’s best-selling poets, and Splitting an Order is the long-awaited follow-up to his Pulitzer winner.
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser delivers his first new collection in more than six years.
Ted Kooser’s third book in the Pitt Poetry Series is a selection of poems published in literary journals over a ten year period by a writer whose work has been…
Ted Kooser lives and writes on 62 acres of wooded hills and pasture in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen. Ted served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and his…
Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear…
The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser’s daily writing routine of getting up long before dawn and snatching out of the air whatever comes to him in…
Like the yellow, pink, and blue irises that had been transplanted from house to house over the years, the stories of poet Ted Kooser’s family had been handed down until…
Offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. Written by one of America’s most beloved poets, this book is published…
Ted Kooser served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Delights and Shadows
In this work the 2004-2005 U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser has selected poems from Sure Signs, winner of the Society of Midland Authors Prize, and the…
Provides tools and insights, the instructions that poets - aspiring or practicing - can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. This title presents the critical relationship between poet…
Ted Kooser describes the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of south-eastern Nebraska. He has what he calls wolf vision - he sees every change in the landscape…
A collection of poetry by Ted Kooser.
Four decades of poetry and a generous selection of new work make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest…
More in Time is a celebration and tribute to two-time United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.
Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail, humor, and pithy Bohemian proverbs the place he calls home in the rolling hills of Nebraska, where what makes life meaningful are the extraordinary…
Signed, limited edition of Ted Kooser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Limited to 250 numbered copies.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Ted Kooser’s At the Cancer Clinic, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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A Study Guide for Ted Kooser’s Delights and Shadows, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Ted Kooser’s The Constellation Orion, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
In a charming tale of an elderly man and his obliging young friend, former poet laureate Kooser and newcomer Duncan invite readers to look at the world with fresh eyes…
Richard Schilling
It is often called Catherland - Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for her stories of European immigrants on the…
In his first children’s book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople’s lives. Includes an Author’s Note…
Ted Kooser,Steve Cox
Suitable for aspiring and praciticng writers, this book states that writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school.
Is the sound Charlie hears from the bridge an echo, or is someone else out there? A lyrical, resonant story by poet Ted Kooser, splendidly illustrated by Barry Root.
When…
When the house was new, not a single tree remained on its perfect lawn to give shade from the sun. The children in the house trailed the scent of wild…
Roy Scheele
The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience: the poet’s love for his wife, his love of nature, his love for the family…
Joyce Sutphen
Carrying Water to the Field evokes the author’s deeply personal view of life on a small farm, her coming of age in the late 1960s, and her search for balance…
Gerald Costanzo
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious…
Marjorie Saiser
Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, Marjorie Saiser’s collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to…
Fleda Brown
Offer a deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of Fleda Brown’s life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening…
This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over…
Jared Carter
For nearly half a century, Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. In this title, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of…
Connie Wanek
For decades a restorer of old homes, Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of Minnesota, as in the old…
Ted Kooser,Connie Wanek
In this captivating collection of poetry, celebrated poets Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, along with illustrator Richard Jones, explore the wonders of nature in a spirited and magical way -…
Seventy lighthearted, much-loved poems cover everything from books and imagination to friendship and the beauty of the natural world. Includes such notable poets as Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, and Marianne…
Celebrated poets Ted Kooser along with Connie Wanek, and illustrator Richard Jones, explore figures of speech in a spirited and magical way–and invite our imaginations out to play. –From publisher…
Kim Hachiya,University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From its beginning in 1869, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has expanded the frontiers of opportunity for nearly three hundred thousand graduates. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates Nebraska’s first 150 years…
Ted Kooser,Jim Harrison
"An expanded anniversary edition of a collection of poems by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison"--
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Michael Forsberg
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and…
