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Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 / Ted Kooser.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pitt poetry seriesPublication details: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.Description: 142 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0822942585 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 0822958775 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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Contents:
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
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.54 K82 Checked out Marks throughout. 9/18/16 NC 07/13/2024 33111004612681
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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.'"

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

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