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Poetry Home Repair Kit
Ted Kooser
Practical advice for beginning poets
University of Nebraska
February 2005
163 pages
ISBN: 0803227698
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted
Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than
forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual,
Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are
tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against
instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to
hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his
own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of
successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the
critical relationship between poet and reader, which is
fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate
purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts.
Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems,
this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and
enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old
friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s
learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to
execute so well.
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