Weather Central

by Kooser, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780822955276
• ISBN10: 082295527X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-27
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

'Weather Central, Ted Kooser's latest book, reinforces his title as poet laureate of Nebraska, whether the governor has gotten around to making the appointment or not...His poems have the beauty and wisdom of something closely tied to the soil...perfect combinations of imagery and music, American poetry, the real thing.'--Reagen Upshaw, The Bloomsbury Review

Table of Contents

Etude	p. 3
In Late Spring	p. 7
A Finding	p. 8
A Hatch of Flies	p. 9
An Elegy	p. 10
Snakeskin	p. 11
Poem Before Breakfast	p. 12
Fireflies	p. 13
The Time of Their Lives	p. 14
A Letter in October	p. 15
Lincoln, Nebraska	p. 19
A Heart of Gold	p. 21
Oceans of Fun	p. 22
The Little Hats	p. 23
Four Secretaries	p. 24
A Blind Woman	p. 25
Chocolate Checkers	p. 26
Night Class	p. 27
Shoes	p. 29
A Deck of Pornographic Playing Cards	p. 30
Baseball	p. 31
Skywalk	p. 32
Yevtushenko	p. 33
In Passing	p. 34
A Poetry Reading	p. 35
City Limits	p. 36
The Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Washington	p. 38
Site	p. 43
Ditch-burning in February	p. 44
An Abandoned Stone Schoolhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills	p. 45
Pasture Trees	p. 46
The Lost Forge	p. 47
Home Storage Barns	p. 48
Surveyors	p. 49
A Stoneware Crock	p. 53
Aunt Mildred	p. 54
Some Kinds of Love	p. 55
A Ghost Story	p. 57
Another Story	p. 58
In a Kitchen Garden	p. 60
Nocturne	p. 61
Five Finger Exercise	p. 65
Barn Owl	p. 66
An Epiphany	p. 67
Peeling a Potato	p. 68
The Mouse in the Piano	p. 69
Spider Eggs	p. 70
A Statue of the Unknown Soldier	p. 71
Stream Bed	p. 73
A Sound in the Night	p. 77
For Jeff	p. 78
Sparklers	p. 79
Old Dog in March	p. 80
The Back Door	p. 81
The Great Grandparents	p. 82
A Good-bye Handshake	p. 83
The Sweeper	p. 84
Weather Central	p. 87
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