Raft by Ted Kooser

Raft

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Raft

Copper Canyon Press

Raft

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Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life's shared experiences and emotions--illness, aging, beauty, and love.

Raft is our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to write for the everyday reader, these poems maintain the open-handed and accessible style that thousands have come to love. Yet, deeply imagistic and metaphorically rich, Raft shows us that even the simplest of objects, the simplest of actions, can become a portal. A boy feeding a goldfish becomes a meditation on loneliness. Scraps of gauze open the door to a study on happiness. Both local and delightfully universal, Raft travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to the shared experiences and emotions of life--illness and aging, beauty and love. Some poems, nostalgia-wrapped, cradle elegies for lost family and friends. Adrift on life rafts of language, this book is a lesson in intentional observation, a celebration of the small, quiet wonders of life.
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556597015
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
120
Authors:
Ted Kooser
Published Date:
2024-09-17
Language:
English
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About Ted Kooser

Poet Laureate of the United States from 2004 to 2006, Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, and received his MA in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He worked in the life insurance industry in Nebraska for roughly three decades, retiring in 1999 as a vice president, while writing poetry. His collection Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize, and he founded the syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry. He is an emeritus professor in the English department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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