Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 /
Kooser, Ted.
Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 / Ted Kooser. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. - 142 p. ; 23 cm. - Pitt poetry series. .
Sure signs: Selecting a reader -- First snow -- An old photograph -- The constellation Orion -- The salesman -- Old soldiers' home -- Self-portrait at thirty-nine -- Christmas Eve -- Visiting mountains -- The leaky faucet -- A frozen stream -- Living near the rehabilitation home -- Late February -- A drive in the country -- Spring plowing -- Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen -- Sure signs -- A summer night -- In a country cemetery in Iowa -- The man with the hearing aid -- The very old -- Walking beside a creek -- Book club -- At the end of the weekend -- Uncle Adler -- In the corners of fields -- How to make rhubarb wine -- Late lights in Minnesota -- The afterlife -- A widow -- So this is Nebraska -- Fort Robinson -- How to foretell a change in the weather -- Snow fence -- In an old apple orchard -- An empty place -- After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet -- The grandfather cap -- Shooting a farmhouse -- Beer bottle -- Sleeping cat -- North of Alliance -- Late September -- Carrie -- For a friend -- Grandfather -- Looking for you, Barbara -- Pocket poem -- Moles -- Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93 -- Advice -- After my grandmother's funeral -- A hot night in wheat country -- Five P.M -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The blind always come as such a surprise -- Furnace -- West window -- Boarding house -- A letter from Aunt Belle -- At the bait stand -- The tattooed lady -- A death at the office -- There is always a little wind -- The Widow Lester -- Houses at the edge of town -- The old woman -- A place in Kansas -- Tom Ball's barn -- My grandfather dying -- The Red Wing Church -- Highway 30 -- Birthday -- The failed suicide -- The goldfish floats to the top of his life -- They had torn off my face at the office -- Year's end -- New Year's Day -- Walking to work -- Sunday morning -- One world at a time: Flying at night -- A fencerow in early March -- Just now -- A birthday card -- In the basement of th
0822942585 (cloth : acidfree paper) 0822958775 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2004028397
Poetry.
Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 / Ted Kooser. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. - 142 p. ; 23 cm. - Pitt poetry series. .
Sure signs: Selecting a reader -- First snow -- An old photograph -- The constellation Orion -- The salesman -- Old soldiers' home -- Self-portrait at thirty-nine -- Christmas Eve -- Visiting mountains -- The leaky faucet -- A frozen stream -- Living near the rehabilitation home -- Late February -- A drive in the country -- Spring plowing -- Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen -- Sure signs -- A summer night -- In a country cemetery in Iowa -- The man with the hearing aid -- The very old -- Walking beside a creek -- Book club -- At the end of the weekend -- Uncle Adler -- In the corners of fields -- How to make rhubarb wine -- Late lights in Minnesota -- The afterlife -- A widow -- So this is Nebraska -- Fort Robinson -- How to foretell a change in the weather -- Snow fence -- In an old apple orchard -- An empty place -- After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet -- The grandfather cap -- Shooting a farmhouse -- Beer bottle -- Sleeping cat -- North of Alliance -- Late September -- Carrie -- For a friend -- Grandfather -- Looking for you, Barbara -- Pocket poem -- Moles -- Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93 -- Advice -- After my grandmother's funeral -- A hot night in wheat country -- Five P.M -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The blind always come as such a surprise -- Furnace -- West window -- Boarding house -- A letter from Aunt Belle -- At the bait stand -- The tattooed lady -- A death at the office -- There is always a little wind -- The Widow Lester -- Houses at the edge of town -- The old woman -- A place in Kansas -- Tom Ball's barn -- My grandfather dying -- The Red Wing Church -- Highway 30 -- Birthday -- The failed suicide -- The goldfish floats to the top of his life -- They had torn off my face at the office -- Year's end -- New Year's Day -- Walking to work -- Sunday morning -- One world at a time: Flying at night -- A fencerow in early March -- Just now -- A birthday card -- In the basement of th
0822942585 (cloth : acidfree paper) 0822958775 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2004028397
Poetry.