Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985
Author(s): Ted Kooser
Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2005, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. In Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier works, Sure Signs (1980) and One World at a Time (1985). Taken together or read one at a time, these poems clearly show why William Cole, writing in the Saturday Review, called Ted Kooser "a wonderful poet," and why Peter Stitt, writing in the Georgia Review, proclaimed him "a skilled and cunning writer...An authentic 'poet of the American people.' "
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"Now that he has been appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, he should receive the readership he deserves.""--TLS "(Times Literary Supplements)
Ted Kooser, retired vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the author of ten books of poetry and two works of nonfiction. He has twice been awarded fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sure Signs was awarded the Society of Midland Authors Prize in 1980. Kooser has also won the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, the James Boatwright Prize, two Prairie Schooner Awards, the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003, and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. Ted Kooser is the 13th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
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- : University of Pittsburgh Press
- : University of Pittsburgh Press
- : 0.218
- : 01 March 2005
- : 229mm X 133mm X 11mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 152
- : 811.54
- : Paperback
- : Ted Kooser