Splitting an Order
Ted Kooser
Category: Poetry
Date finished: 11 January 2015
Rating: ****
Comments:
I subscribe to a weekly poetry email by former poet laureate
Ted Kooser, and I’ve long appreciated his simple poems (think William Stafford
but even more humble!). Also, he’s
from Nebraska, and I happen to love a man from Nebraska. So I have a soft spot
for Ted Kooser’s poetry.
There’s nothing flashy in this collection, and in fact,
writing this three months after reading the book, I can tell you that I don’t
remember a single poem or image from it. Which would make one think it’s nor
very good if not for the fact that some poets are mood poets. Some poets write
poems so meek, you kind of forget their meanings. No one praises the wren for
who it is or what it does, but it works hard whether you notice him or not. Ted
Kooser is like a little brown wren who doesn’t care if you’re paying attention.
I like that in a poet and in a collection of poetry.
Would you recommend
this to a friend?
Yes.
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