Delights & shadows : poems / by Ted Kooser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kooser, Ted.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 87 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Delights and shadows

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2004]

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 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.

Contents:

I. Walking on Tiptoe

Walking on Tiptoe 5

Tattoo 6

At the Cancer Clinic 7

Student 8

Gyroscope 9

New Cap 10

Cosmetics Department 11

Biker 12

The Old People 13

In January 14

A Rainy Morning 15

Mourners 16

Skater 17

II. The China Painters

The China Painters 21

Memory 22

Ice Cave 24

Mother 25

A Jar of Buttons 27

Dishwater 28

Depression Glass 29

Zenith 30

The Necktie 31

Applesauce 32

Creamed Corn 34

Flow Blue China 35

Father 36

Pearl 37

Old Cemetery 41

A Winter Morning 42

III. Bank Fishing for Bluegills

Bank Fishing for Bluegills 45

Four Civil War Paintings by Winslow Homer 46

Turkey Vultures 51

Pegboard 52

At the County Museum 53

Casting Reels 55

Horse 56

Praying Hands 57

Lobocraspis griseifusa 58

Home Medical Dictionary 59

In the Hall of Bones 60

A Jacquard Shawl 61

Telescope 62

A Box of Pastels 63

Old Lilacs 64

Grasshoppers 65

The Beaded Purse 66

IV. That Was I

That Was I 71

Screech Owl 73

A Spiral Notebook 74

The Early Bird 75

Starlight 76

On the Road 77

A Washing of Hands 78

After Years 79

Garage Sale 80

Surviving 81

A Glimpse of the Eternal 82

Tectonics 83

A Happy Birthday 84.

ISBN:

1556592019

OCLC:

52895608