Delights & Shadows
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2005
For thirty years United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's poems have offered proof that poetry need not be forbidding, nor difficult, nor intentionally obscure. Here is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility so that each distinctive poem appears to be as fresh and bright and spontaneous as a good watercolor painting. He is a haiku-like imagist and the "tender wisdom" infusing his poems has been compared to Chekov's. These qualities are in abundance in Delights and Shadows, as Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. A pegboard, creamed corn, and a forgotten salesman trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before was our merely ordinary world.
ISBN: 1-55659-201-9
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2005
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