Delights & Shadows

by Kooser, Ted

• ISBN13: 9781556592010
• ISBN10: 1556592019
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

For more than thirty years Ted Kooser has written poems that deftly bring dissimilar things into telling unities. Throughout a long and distinguished writing career he has worked toward clarity and accessibility, making a poetry as fresh and spontaneous as a good watercolor. A gyroscope balanced between a child's hands, a jar of buttons that recalls generations of women, and a bird briefly witnessed outside a window -- each reveals the remarkable within an otherwise ordinary world. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

I. WALKING ON TIPTOE
Walking on Tiptoe	5	(1)
Tattoo	6	(1)
At the Cancer Clinic	7	(1)
Student	8	(1)
Gyroscope	9	(1)
New Cap	10	(1)
Cosmetics Department	11	(1)
Biker	12	(1)
The Old People	13	(1)
In January	14	(1)
A Rainy Morning	15	(1)
Mourners	16	(1)
Skater	17	(4)
II. THE CHINA PAINTERS
The China Painters	21	(1)
Memory	22	(2)
Ice Cave	24	(1)
Mother	25	(2)
A Jar of Buttons	27	(1)
Dishwater	28	(1)
Depression Glass	29	(1)
Zenith	30	(1)
The Necktie	31	(1)
Applesauce	32	(2)
Creamed Corn	34	(1)
Flow Blue China	35	(1)
Father	36	(1)
Pearl	37	(4)
Old Cemetery	41	(1)
A Winter Morning	42	(3)
III. BANK FISHING FOR BLUEGILLS
Bank Fishing for Bluegills	45	(1)
Four Civil War Paintings by Winslow Homer	46	(5)
Turkey Vultures	51	(1)
Pegboard	52	(1)
At the County Museum	53	(2)
Casting Reels	55	(1)
Horse	56	(1)
Praying Hands	57	(1)
Lobocraspis griseifusa	58	(1)
Home Medical Dictionary	59	(1)
In the Hall of Bones	60	(1)
A Jacquard Shawl	61	(1)
Telescope	62	(1)
A Box of Pastels	63	(1)
Old Lilacs	64	(1)
Grasshoppers	65	(1)
The Beaded Purse	66	(5)
IV. THAT WAS I
That Was I	71	(2)
Screech Owl	73	(1)
A Spiral Notebook	74	(1)
The Early Bird	75	(1)
Starlight	76	(1)
On the Road	77	(1)
A Washing of Hands	78	(1)
After Years	79	(1)
Garage Sale	80	(1)
Surviving	80	(2)
A Glimpse of the Eternal	82	(1)
Tectonics	83	(1)
A Happy Birthday	84	(3)
About the Author	87