New Releases by Ted Kooser

Cuando nombraron a Ted Kooser Poeta Laureado de los Estados Unidos, declaró: “Intento incorporar en mis poemas cosas sencillas y mirarlas con una nueva luz”. Kooser, que es un maestro en el arte de la metáfora, escribe con una claridad que a veces deslumbra pero que nunca ciega, con una sorprendente precisión y una engañosa sencillez. Los poemas de Kooser han sido comparados con los cuentos de Chéjov por su ambientación espacial, la presencia de los personajes y el sentido del tiempo. Delicias y sombras, Premio Pulitzer en 2005, es una crónica llena de nostalgia de una época pasada o a punto de desaparecer iluminada con objetos o hechos humildes como puede ser una tabla de herramientas con piezas difíciles de encontrar y específicas de una cultura, un tatuaje con cincuenta años en el brazo de alguien que fue joven y hermoso, un frasco de botones en una época en que nadie cose, la noticia de un entierro o el paso violento de un huracán en uno de los poe mas más vertiginosos del libro. Escribir con sencillez es extremadamente complicado. Kooser es un maestro.

For Valentine?s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote ?Pocket Poem? and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women all over the United States. Valentines collects Kooser?s twenty-two years of Valentine?s Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. ø Kooser?s valentine poems encompass all the facets of the holiday: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing. Some of the poems use the word valentine, others do not, but there is never any doubt as to the purpose of Kooser?s creations.

A collection of poems written from the voices of survivors of the January 1888 Nebraska blizzard.

Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and Steve Cox in this spirited book of practical wisdom that brings to bear decades of invaluable experience in writing, teaching, editing, and publishing. Unlike ?how to write? books that dwell on the angst and the agony of the trade, Writing Brave and Free is upbeat and accessible. The focus here is the work itself: how to get started and how to keep going, and never is heard a discouraging word such as ?no,? ?not,? or ?never.? Because of the wealth of their experience, the authors can offer the sort of practical publishing advice that novices need and yet rarely find. Organized in brief, user-friendly chapters?on everything from sensory details to a work environment, from creating suspense to revising and taking criticism?the book allows aspiring (and practicing) writers to dip in anywhere and find something of value.

Since 1986, U.S. Poet Laureate Kooser has been composing a poem to mark February 14th and sending it to a mailing list of women that now includes several hundred names. Those poems, including the one for 2006, have been gathered in this lovely letterpressed edition, limited to 500 copies. Mr. Kooser writes in his Author''s Note: Of all the activities I get involved in, sending valentines has been one of the most pleasurable. I intend to keep it up until I am silenced once and for all. --Open Books.

Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, 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.''"

Provides instructions on writing and revising poems.

"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?

Presents brief poems originally exchanged by the longtime friends in their letters to each other, exploring such topics as the natural world, aging, and the nature of poetry.

Kooser describes with exquisite detail, humour, and savvy the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska

A collection of poetry by Ted Kooser.

Ted Kooser’s third book in the Pitt Poetry Series is a selection of poems published in literary journals over a ten year period by a writer whose work has been praised for its clarity and accessiblity, its mastery of figurative language, and its warmth and charm.

Poems portray nature, the past, death, memories, the night, space exploration, the poor, city life, and health.