Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

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Kooser, Ted

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9780822958772: Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Pitt Poetry Series)
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ISBN 10: 0822958775 ISBN 13: 9780822958772
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 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.'"

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About the Author

Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939. He was educated in the Ames public schools, at Iowa State University, and the University of Nebraska. His awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Stanley Kunitz Prize from Columbia magazine, and the 1981 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry for Sure Signs. His poems have appeared in many magazines including the Antioch Review, the Hudson Review, and the Kenyon Review.

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Excerpt from Flying at Night by Ted Kooser



The Constellation Orion

I’m delighted to see you,
old friend,
lying there in your hammock
over the next town.
You were the first person
my son was to meet in the heavens.
He’s sleeping now,
his head like a small sun in my lap.
Our car whizzes along in the night.
If he were awake, he’d say,
“Look, Daddy, there’s Old Ryan!”
but I won’t wake him.
He’s mine for the weekend,
Old Ryan, not yours

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822958775
ISBN 13 
9780822958772
Binding
Paperback
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Number of pages
142
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