Research Catalog

Title

Sure signs : new and selected poems / Ted Kooser.

Author

Kooser, Ted.

Publication

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1980.

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Details

Description

93 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

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 accesible to the reader not familiar with contemporary poetry.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Subject

American poetry

Contents

Selecting a Reader -- First Snow -- An Old Photograph -- The Constellation Orion -- The Salesman -- Old soldiers' Home -- Self-Portrait at Thirty-Nine -- Christmas Eve -- August -- At the Bus Stop Next to the Funeral Home -- Visiting Mountains -- The Leaky Faucet -- The Soul of Twins -- A Frozen Stream -- Living Near the Rehabilitation Home -- Late February -- A Drive in the Country -- Spring Plowing -- Sitting All Evening Alone in the Kitchen -- Sure Signs -- The Skeleton in the Closet -- A Summer Night -- In a Country Cemetery in Iowa -- The Man with the Hearing Aid -- The Very Old -- Walking Beside a Creek -- Book Club -- At the End of the Weekend -- Uncle Adler -- In the Corners of Fields -- How to Make Rhubarb Wine -- Late Lights in Minnesota -- The Afterlife -- A Widow -- So This is Nebraska -- Fort Robinson -- How to Foretell a Change in the Weather -- Snow Fence -- In an Old Apple Orchard -- An Empty Place -- In the Kitchen, at Midnight -- After the Funeral: Cleaning Out the Medicine Cabinet -- The Grandfather Cap -- Shooting a Farmhouse -- Beer Bottle -- Sleeping Cat -- North of Alliance -- Late September -- Carrie -- For a Friend -- Grandfather -- Looking for You, Barbara -- Pocket Poem -- Moles -- Notes on the Death of Nels Paulssen, Farmer at the Ripe Old Age of 93 -- Advice -- After My Grandfather's Funeral -- A Hot Night in Wheat Country -- Five P.M. -- Abandoned Farmhouse -- The Blind Always Come as Such a Surprise -- Furnace -- West Window -- Boarding House -- The Geek -- A Letter from Aunt Belle -- At the Bait Stand -- The Tattooed Lady -- A Death at the Office -- There Is Always a Little Wind -- The Widow Lester -- Houses at the Edge of Town -- The Old Woman -- A Place in Kansas -- Tom Ball's Barn -- My Grandfather Dying -- The Red Wing Church -- Highway -- The Failed Suicide -- A Hairnet with Stars -- The Goldfish Floats to the Top of His Life -- They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office -- A Presidential Poem -- Year's End -- New Year's Day -- A Dry Winter Letter to Friends -- Walking to Work -- Sunday Morning.

Call Number

JFD 80-10977

ISBN

• 0822953137
• 9780822953135
• 0822934108

LCCN

79021725

OCLC

5497178

Author

Kooser, Ted.

Title

Sure signs : new and selected poems / Ted Kooser.

Imprint

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1980.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Research Call Number

JFD 80-10977