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  • Healing the Divide

    Poems of Kindness and Connection

    Find solace and connection in a world that feels increasingly divided with this collection of poems celebrating kindness, compassion, and shared humanity.Healing the Divide offers a powerful antidote to the negativity of modern life, inviting readers to embrace ordinary moments of grace and connection. Through the intimate focus of poetry, this anthology uncovers the beauty and vulnerability in ... Read more

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  • Delights & Shadows

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry“Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance.”—Poetry"[Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Raft

    by Ted Kooser ...
    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.Raftis our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to write for the everyday reader, these poems maintain the open-handed and accessible ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Sure Signs

    New and Selected Poems

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    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 the reader not familiar with contemporary poetry. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Man with a Rake

    by Ted Kooser ...
    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 ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Kindest Regards

    New and Selected

    by Ted Kooser ...
    “Kooser . . . must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Nothing escapes him; everything is illuminated.” —Library Journal“Will one day rank alongside of Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams.” —Minneapolis Tribune“Kooser’s ability to discover the smallest detail and render it ... Read more

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  • House Held Up by Trees

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Illustrated by Jon Klassen ...
    From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser and award-winning illustrator, Jon Klassen, comes a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triumph.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 trees to neighboring lots, where thick bushes offered up secret places to play. When the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Wheeling Year

    A Poet's Field Book

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Seven Skies All at Once

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Illustrated by Matt Myers ...
    "Kooser’s picturesque poetry vividly shapes his living sky metaphors. . . A lofty concept and radiant illustrations will leave readers on cloud nine." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The skies are hanging their freshly washed—and sweepingly illustrated—clouds out to dry in Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Ted Kooser’s celestial ode to an approaching rainstorm.One sky unpins damp sheets of cirrus. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Red Stilts

    by Ted Kooser ...
    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 and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an audience of everyday readers and believes poets “need to write poetry that doesn’t make people feel stupid.” Each poem ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play among Figures of Speech

    Illustrated by Richard Jones ...
    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.A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Braided Creek

    A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition

    In her loving Foreword to this expanded anniversary edition, Naomi Shihab Nye writes “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry is one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends… This slim volume acts as a palate-cleanser, a spirit-booster, a little rocket-ship of wonders.”While Ted Kooser and Jim ... Read more

    $15.99 USD