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The life and poetry of Ted Kooser / Mary K. Stillwell.
- Title
- The life and poetry of Ted Kooser / Mary K. Stillwell.
- Author
- Stillwell, Mary K.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3561.O6 Z86 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 285 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Just as so much of Kooser's own writing weaves geography, history, and family stories into its measures, so does this first critical biography consider the poet's work and life together: his upbringing in Iowa, his studies in Nebraska with poet Karl Shapiro as mentor, his career in insurance, his family life, his bout with cancer, and, always, his poetry. Combining a fine appreciation of Kooser's work and life, this book finally provides a fuller and more complex picture of a writer who, perhaps more than any other, has brought the Great Plains and the Midwest, lived large and small, into the poetry of our day.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chronology -- Growing up in Iowa, 1939-1963 -- Official entry -- An emerging imagination -- Summers in paradise -- Looking the part -- King, a dog of the north -- Moving Gibraltar -- Nebraska apprenticeship, 1963-1969 -- The move to Nebraska -- Journey to a place of work -- Official entry blank -- Running on empty -- The shepherd's new song, 1970-1979 -- A local habitation & a name -- Singing the shepherd's song -- Not coming to be barked at -- "Walking home to you" -- American scripture, 1980-1994 -- Sure signs -- Common ground -- One world at a time -- Weather central -- "Feeling the speed," 1995 today -- "Lights on a ground of darkness" -- Winter morning walks -- Local wonders -- Delights & shadows -- "The ripening odor of praise" -- "Bright yellow leaves flying".
- ISBN
- 9780803243866 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803243863 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013011893
- OCLC
- 839395874
- SCSB-12297406
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library