Delights and Shadows (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ted Kooser
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Rural or country life, Poetry or poets, Old age or elderly people, Nebraska, Aging, Iowa
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and pioneering publisher of City Lights Books, registered his dissatisfaction with the poet selected to fill the position of the U.S. poet laureate by observing, “He's an independent voice, but he doesn’t say anything.” While Ferlinghetti might prefer a poet with a specific political agenda, someone whom he describes as “the true conscience of a people,” his own employment of an American vernacular style in his work should enable him to recognize that there is a singular voice with something vital to say in the poetry of Ted Kooser, whose...
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