Name: Delights & Shadows, Paperback/Ted Kooser
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), 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 who imbues his poems with "tender wisdom," and draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Praise for "Delights and Shadows" "Ted Kooser...has a genius for making the ordinary sacred."--"The New York Times" "A sense of wonder and compassion runs through this Pulitzer Prize winning volume... Kooser's poetry is understated yet manages to skillfully illuminate the small moments of life."--"Christian Science Monitor" " Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths behind his lines."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser's work, but it especially seems to animate his new collection of poems, "Delights & Shadows." Every delight is shadowed by darkness in this book of small wonders and hard dualisms."--Edward Hirsch, "The Washington Post" ""Delights and Shadows" is a book with a deep stillness at its center, perfectly self-contained."--Carol Muske-Dukes, "Los Angeles Times" "Kooser's ninth collection of poems reflects the simple and remarkable things of