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Delights & Shadows
Binding: Paperback
Author: Ted Kooser
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 26
List Price: $15.00
Our Price: $10.80
Sales Rank: 80971
Product Description
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 salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before was a merely ordinary world. "Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance."-Poetry Ted Kooser is the author of eight collections of poems and a prose memoir. He lives on a small farm in rural Nebraska.
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Product Review Summary: Are you kidding me? I have to confess that although well educated, I have never been able to embrace poetry. With that as a premise, my daughter had this assigned for summer reading and of course, I ordered though Amazon. Upon arrival I glanced at the works and for a non-believer , I had to admit that Mr. Kooser's works were simple enough to understand and "feel". However, $75 for a grouping of less than 80 poems, most of which fill half a page? I just don't get it and probably never will.
Product Review Summary: 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 expansive Whitman - like poet.
He is the poet of the prairie, of the flat space and of the reticent speech. He has a winning modesty about him, and a down- to - earth power of observation. He looks at his family and neighbors, he sees things, and writes poems about them. His poems can be quietly humorous but they are not wildly funny.
He is a sane, sober, responsible poet, a good citizen. It is hard not to like and respect his poetry.
Product Review Summary: LOVE IT Ted Kooser is awsome.
His work is really simple to read and understand yet it has a deeper meaning.
Product Review Summary: Delights and Shadows For years I've managed to excite middle schoolers into writing poetry. I have laughed, wept, and been inspired by young people's fresh and uninhibited outlook on life. I eschewed big people poetry because the words were too difficult, the ideas beyond my ken, and the layers too many to peel off. This fall I met Ted Kooser. Oh my goodness! I'm even attempting my own playing with personal poetry now! To hear Kooser recite his poetry is certainly a gift. Having heard his voice, I now hear it in each and every one of his poems. Kooser is "down home" in his approach, so often with much humor woven into his often philosophical ziggers at the end of a poem. He triggers laughter, he gets me to thinking about "matters of consequence". (Thank you, Antoine de St.=Exupery's The Little Prince.)
Product Review Summary: Delights and Shadows Wonderful collection of poems by our former National Poet Laureate. Ted Kooser presents real life narratives; he's not a stream of consciousness poet.
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