Red Stilts (paperback) by Ted Kooser (English) Paperback Book

Description: Red Stilts (paperback) by Ted Kooser The world hung high on the side of a shed at the lumberyard, a plywood disk painted green, with a small but apparently bottomless bucket of red enamel tipped and pouring over it, the red running down over all of America, dripping away from its sides, and as well leaned our bicycles into the turn up Northwestern Avenue toward the park with its two miserable bears in their stinky cages, in big blocky letters it told us to COVER THE EARTH and weve done just that, and though those bears died long ago, and though that sign was taken down so many years ago that few remember it, just now I leaned into another turn and saw it there. Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser as he enters his eighth decade, at the height of his imaginative and artistic powers. Deepened by his lifelong engagement with poetry, here are the richly metaphorical, clear, and welcoming poems for which he has become widely acclaimed. Kooser has always tried to write for an audience of everyday people, pointing to the miraculous details of life that are just under our noses. Writing from rural America, most specifically the Great Plains-with its isolated villages, struggling economy, and abundance of stories for telling-Kooser reveals the complex beauty that surely surpasses everything wrong and wrecked in this world. Book jacket. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ted Kooser received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Delights and Shadows, and also served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States. As Poet Laureate, he established a weekly newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry," which is carried in over 150 newspapers, as well as online, and has an estimated circulation of three and a half million readers around the world. Kooser is the author of over twenty books, including five for children. He lives in a small town in Nebraska. Promotional paperback release featured on Presss robust social media accountselectronic newsletters sent to individual poetry readers (15k)featured on Press website splayed at appropriate conferencesGoogleAds Long Description Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an audience of everyday readers and believes poets "need to write poetry that doesnt make people feel stupid." Each poem in Red Stilts strives to reveal the complex beauties of the ordinary, of the world thats right under our noses. Right under Koosers nose is rural America, most specifically the Great Plains, with its isolated villages, struggling economy, hard-working people and multiple beauties that surpass everything wrecked, wrong, or in error. Excerpt from Book Spring Landscape A wake of black waves foamy with pebbles follows the plow, rolls all the way up to the fence, slaps into the grass and trickles back, while farther out a spray of white gulls, wings like splashes, are splashing down. Spring on the prairie, a sky reaching forever in every direction, and here at my feet, distilled from all that blue, a single drop caught in the spoon of a leaf, a robins egg. A Woman and Two Men I was past in an instant. It was raining, just softly, after a morning-long shower, no sounds but the hiss of the pavement, my wipers whupping on low. Two men in hardhats were parked on the shoulder in a truck with a ladder rack and a bed full of tools. A woman driving a pickup with a camper had pulled up a few yards behind them and had walked up the road to the passengers side, her hair wet, her arms wrapped about her. She had boots, a fringed leather jacket with beads on the fringe, and jeans with galaxies of rhinestones on the pockets. The man on the passengers side had rolled down his window, but only partway, and was staring out over the hood while the driver leaned far forward and over to talk, his shoulder pressed into the wheel, all this in a flash, those three at the side of the highway, the fourth glancing over in passing. I could in that instant feel something common between us, among us, around us, within us. It was more than a light April rain playing over a road. Up the Block Maybe you saw me pass by, walking, or maybe you didnt. I raised a hand in a tentative wave, but you were intent upon your watering, as if to make sure the spray from the hose fell evenly over your small plot of petunias, purple ,pink, and white. The nozzle was yellow, of plastic, much like a showerhead, sweeping or brushing the bright drops evenly, lacquering over the flowers, the dark purple ones deeper in color under the layers of glazes, and the pink brighter, too. The white looked the same, but youd probably planted those there mostly to set off the others. From one end to the other you slowly and gently swept the soft whiskbroom of droplets, enrapt, or so it appeared, by what you saw sprinkling out of your hand, upon which I could see drops forming, each diamond-bright on a knuckle, and Id guess they were cold, perhaps even numbing, but youd gotten hold of a rainbow, and couldnt let go. Description for Sales People Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pulitzer Prize in Poetry One of Americas best-selling poets Delights and Shadows is a perennial backlist engine, with lifetime sales approaching 100,000 units founding editor of weekly newspaper column "American Life in Poetry," with total circulation of 3.5 million Proudly one of the most accessible poets writing today, insisting that he never wants a reader to feel stupid Any book of poems from Ted Kooser is cause for celebration Details ISBN1556596499 Publisher Copper Canyon Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1556596499 ISBN-13 9781556596490 Format Paperback Audience General/Trade Author Ted Kooser Pages 112 Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Country of Publication United States Illustrations No AU Release Date 2022-04-28 NZ Release Date 2022-04-28 US Release Date 2022-04-28 UK Release Date 2022-04-28 Publication Date 2022-07-18 DEWEY 811.54 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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