Ted Kooser (Author of Delights and Shadows)

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Ted Kooser

Born

in Ames, Iowa, The United States

April 25, 1939

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Ted Kooser lives in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen, and three dogs. He is one of America's most noted poets, having served two terms as U. S. Poet Laureate and, during the second term, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, Delights & Shadows. He is a retired life insurance executive who now teaches part-time at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The school board in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently opened Ted Kooser Elementary School, which Ted says is his greatest honor, among many awards and distinctions. He has published twelve collections of poetry and three nonfiction books. Two of the latter are books on writing, The Poetry Home Repair Manual and Writing Brave and Free, and a memoir, Lights on a Ground of Dark ...more

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	Delights and Shadows 4.22 avg rating — 3,360 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets 4.15 avg rating — 1,992 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,655 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison 4.47 avg rating — 762 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps 4.35 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.19 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splitting an Order 4.31 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valentines 3.91 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems 4.49 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ted Kooser (?)

“a happy birthday

this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride the day down into night,
to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand”
― Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows

tags: birthday, poetry, reading

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“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.”
― Ted Kooser

tags: poetry, valentine-s-day

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“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there鈥檚 a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you鈥檙e writing your poem, there鈥檚 one less scoundrel in the world. And I鈥檇 like a world, wouldn鈥檛 you, in which people actually took time to think about what they were saying? It would be, I鈥檓 certain, a more peaceful, more reasonable place. I don鈥檛 think there could ever be too many poets. By writing poetry, even those poems that fail and fail miserably, we honor and affirm life. We say 鈥榃e loved the earth but could not stay.”
― Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

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