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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Ted Kooser
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Description for The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Paperback. Num Pages: references, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 179 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and ... Read more
Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
170
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803259782
SKU
V9780803259782
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99-17
About Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser, former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2004-2006), is a visiting professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a retired insurance executive. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently the Pulitzer Prize-winning Delights & Shadows. His prose book, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, won ... Read more
Reviews for The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
"Ted Kooser could be mistaken for an average guy except for one thing: He writes poetry. That activity sets him apart from most of his neighbors, since they, like most Americans, have very little time for the stuff. A resident of Nebraska and the first U.S. poet laureate from the Great Plains, Mr. Kooser takes a broadly inclusive approach to ... Read more