num_pages: 87
description: American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before was a merely ordinary world."Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance."-PoetryTed Kooser is the author of eight collections of poems and a prose memoir. He lives on a small farm in rural Nebraska.
language: English
title: Delights and Shadows
titlecomplete: Delights and Shadows
genres: Classics, American, Adult, Read For School, Literature, Contemporary, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3218
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Copper Canyon Press