| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I. FROM FISHING WITH BLOOD 1988 -- Garden -- To Mark, My Retarded Brother, Who Lived -- Years and Learned to Speak 300 Words -- Arch -- For Grandmother Beth -- Plain Philosophical Choice -- Out Back -- Canoe -- Whaler -- Catching Turtles -- Fishing with Blood -- Apalachee Bay -- Scholar's Cat -- Saving a Life -- He Says How It Was -- Emily Dickinson's Love -- Love, for Instance -- From "O'Keeffe" -- She Learns to Walk -- She Learns to Talk -- New Yorker Visits Her Exhibition -- She Marries the Photographer -- Expert Explains Her Work -- II. FROM DO NOT PEEL THE BIRCHES 1993 -- Elvis at the End of History -- Do Not Peel the Birches -- Long and Happy Life -- Learning to Dance -- After the Rain -- Loon Cries -- Night Swimming -- My Father Takes My Retarded Brother Sailing -- If I Were a Swan -- Dock -- Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach -- Mississippi River, near Cape Girardeau, MO -- Mother of the Bride Dress -- St. Paul's and St. George's Church, Edinburgh -- Farthest North Southern Town -- Burdett Palmer's Foot -- Kitty Hawk -- Anhinga -- Bombay Hook -- III. FROM BREATHING IN, BREATHING OUT 2002 -- Fourth of July Parade, Albion, WA -- Buying the King-Sized Bed -- Cosmic Pitching -- Somewhere -- Dogs -- Highway 5 -- Poet Laureate Addresses the Delaware Legislature Opening Its First Session after September 11 -- Rumors of Changes Circulate on Penguins -- Cow Falling -- Spring -- Leaving Lewisburg -- Mary Rose Quotes James Joyce on the Cliffs at Bray -- Sunday Morning -- Chicken Bone -- Hyperspace -- Language -- Chat -- For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997 -- Your Body -- I Write My Mother a Poem -- Einstein on Mercer Street -- IV. FROM THE WOMEN WHO LOVED ELVIS ALL THEIR LIVES 2004 -- Tillywilly Fog -- I Escape with My Mother in the DeSoto -- Elvis Aron and Jesse Garon -- Memphis Discovers Elvis -- Elvis Goes to the Army -- Shaking Hands with Nixon -- Sputnik, 1957 -- Elvis Sings Gospel -- Industrial Teflon Comes into Use for Kitchen Pots and Pans -- Bus Stop -- Night before Her Third Marriage, She Watches a Rerun of Elvis's Comeback Performance -- Elvis Acts as His Own Pallbearer -- Mrs. Louise Welling Spots Elvis at Harding's Market -- I Visit the Twenty-Four Hour Coin-Op Church of Elvis -- Elvis Reads "The Wild Swans at Coole" -- From "Graceland" -- Elvis's Bedroom -- Lisa Marie's Favorite Chair -- Mirrored Stairwell -- Meditation Garden -- V. FROM REUNION 2007 -- If Names Started Coming Loose -- Biology Lesson -- What It Was Like -- Fayetteville Junior High -- Knot Tying Lessons: The Slipknot -- Makeup Regimen -- Mouse -- Trillium -- Small Boys Fishing under the Bridge -- Light -- Ode to the Buffman Brothers -- Wild Lily of the Valley -- No Heron -- Knot Tying Lessons: The Perfection Knot -- Knife -- Bladder Campion -- Death of Cleone -- Poem for Our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary -- Through Security -- Lady's Slipper -- VI. FROM LOON CRY: SELECTED AND NEW MICHIGAN POEMS 2010 -- Scavengers -- Crouching -- Hawsers -- Wild Turkeys -- Deer -- Northern Pike -- Chicory -- VII. FROM NO NEED OF SYMPATHY 2013 -- Year of the Tent Caterpillars -- For, Or, Nor -- Sugar, Sugar -- Purpose of Poetry -- Kayak and the Eiffel Tower -- My Father and Hemingway Go Fishing -- Roofers -- Hare's Breath -- God, God -- Dancing at Your Wedding -- Child Labor -- Here, in Silence, Are Eight More -- Short History of Music -- Big Bang -- Worms -- Felled Tree -- Translation -- Building a Cathedral -- Talk Radio -- Fourteen Lines -- VIII. NEW POEMS -- Swan Flies Straight at Me -- Elegance -- Unfurl -- Undoing -- News -- On a Day That Bombs -- Feeding the Maggots -- Bees -- Taxol -- Cancer Support Group with Painting by Monet -- Snoring -- Lesson -- Mute Swan -- Tulips -- Elk Farm -- Edward Hopper's Automat -- Silence -- What Happens -- Fawn -- Wheel -- War -- Pike -- Muskrat -- Tiny Fish -- Every Day I Touch Things -- View from Space -- Gospel Truth -- Speed -- Blueweed -- Refrigerator -- Poem for Record Players -- Sex Life of Anacondas -- Bar Mitzvah -- Mummy Exhibit -- Caterpillars -- Getting Free -- July 20, 1944 -- Wild -- Asian Carp -- Grateful -- Protection -- Cedar Waxwing -- Poem I Was Going to Write -- Reading the Smithsonian Magazine -- Surrounded by People -- I Say Your Name -- Five Moons |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Poetry
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poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kooser, Ted, writer of introduction
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| LC no. |
2016041721 |
| ISBN |
9781496200327 |
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1496200322 |
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9781496200334 |
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1496200330 |
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9781496200341 |
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1496200349 |
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