The Deserted Farm House
The Deserted Farm House

Author: Varnum Lincoln

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780483744226

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Excerpt from The Deserted Farm House: And Other Poems At night the owl Oft Sits on hearthstone cold, And woos its distant mate with plaintive calls, While circling bats their secret revels hold, Where ghostly moonlight on the wainscot falls. O'er rotting Sill rank weeds their Shadows spread, As if to hide it from the curious gaze, While the lone lilac by the ruined Shed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Man with a Rake
A Man with a Rake

Author: Ted Kooser

Publisher: Pulley Press

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781734979176

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Ted Kooser lives and writes on 62 acres of wooded hills and pasture in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, a retired editor of the Lincoln Journal Star. None of their property is farmed and is instead left to an abundance of wildlife. For many years Kooser worked at a desk in the life insurance business, retired at 60, and for fifteen years taught poetry writing in the graduate program of the University of Nebraska. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, five volumes of nonfiction, five children's picture books, and seventeen chapbooks and special editions. He served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and his 2004 collection of poems, Delights & Shadows, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Prior to the publication of A Man with a Rake, his most recent collection of poems is Red Stilts, from Copper Canyon Press. More about his life, his work, and his many honors can be found at www.tedkooser.net.

Delights & Shadows
Delights & Shadows

Author: Ted Kooser

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2004-05-01

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1619320053

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"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?

Here at Eagle Pond
Here at Eagle Pond

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780618084739

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In these tender essays, Hall shares his memories and thoughts on growing up in New Hampshire on his grandparent's dairy farm, of the seasons, and of his connection to the land, his family, and his coming home.

The Poetry Home Repair Manual
The Poetry Home Repair Manual

Author: Ted Kooser

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780803259782

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Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.