Title: The life and poetry of Ted Kooser
Description: Just as so much of Kooser's own writing weaves geography, history, and family stories into its measures, so does this first critical biography consider the poet's work and life together: his upbringing in Iowa, his studies in Nebraska with poet Karl Shapiro as mentor, his career in insurance, his family life, his bout with cancer, and, always, his poetry. Combining a fine appreciation of Kooser's work and life, this book finally provides a fuller and more complex picture of a writer who, perhaps more than any other, has brought the Great Plains and the Midwest, lived large and small, into the poetry of our day.
Subjects: Poets laureate, Criticism and interpretation, Biography, American Poets, Poets, biography, Authors, american, Nebraska, biography
Places: United States, Nebraska
People: Ted Kooser
Time periods: 20th century