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A Man with a Rake Spiral-Bound | 2022-03-15

Ted Kooser

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Ted Kooser lives and writes on 62 acres of wooded hills and pasture in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, a retired editor of the Lincoln Journal Star. None of their property is farmed and is instead left to an abundance of wildlife. For many years Kooser worked at a desk in the life insurance business, retired at 60, and for fifteen years taught poetry writing in the graduate program of the University of Nebraska. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, five volumes of nonfiction, five children's picture books, and seventeen chapbooks and special editions. He served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and his 2004 collection of poems, Delights & Shadows, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Prior to the publication of A Man with a Rake, his most recent collection of poems is Red Stilts, from Copper Canyon Press. More about his life, his work, and his many honors can be found at www.tedkooser.net. Read more
Publisher: Clyde Hill Publishing
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1734979178
Item Weight: 0.1 lbs
Dimensions: 5.83 x 0.09 x 8.27 inches
Poet and critic Ed Hirsch wrote in The Washington Post that there is a "quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser's work." His verse is "an unadorned, pragmatic, quintessentially American poetry of empty places, of farmland and low-slung cities…"

"Wonderful little chap book. Just 18 poems, but each one is a gem that gently took me out of my life and into another place and time. Calming and delightful." - Phillip Burwell

"Ted Kooser is a poet's poet. He knows how to take the mundane and morph it into a cerebral experience." - Tabber

Ted Kooser served two terms as US Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize for Delights & Shadows in 2004. The poet lives and writes on 62 acres of wooded hills and pasture in rural Nebraska. For many years Kooser worked at a desk in the life insurance business and then, after he retired he taught poetry writing at the University of Nebraska.

He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, five volumes of nonfiction, five children's picture books, and seventeen chapbooks and special editions. He served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and his 2004 collection of poems, Delights & Shadows, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Prior to the publication of A Man with a Rake, his most recent collection of poems is Red Stilts, from Copper Canyon Press. More about his life, his work, and his many honors can be found at www.tedkooser.net.