Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 31 results for “ted kooser”
Skip side bar filters

  • Splitting an Order

    by Ted Kooser ...
    One of the "Big Indie Books of Fall 2014"—Publishers Weekly"Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda,The Washington Post“Readers [of Splitting an Order] will find ‘characters’ both strange and wonderful, animal or human. There is a sense that time is passing quickly and that everything worthy must be captured and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • House Held Up by Trees

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Illustrated by Jon Klassen ...
    From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser and award-winning illustrator, Jon Klassen, comes a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triumph.When the house was new, not a single tree remained on its perfect lawn to give shade from the sun. The children in the house trailed the scent of wild trees to neighboring lots, where thick bushes offered up secret places to play. When the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Valentines

    by Ted Kooser ...
    For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women all over the United States. Valentines collects Kooser’s twenty-two years of ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Writing Brave and Free

    Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing

    by Ted Kooser, Steve F Cox ...
    Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and Steve Cox in this spirited book of practical wisdom that brings to bear decades of invaluable experience in writing, teaching, editing, and publishing.Unlike “how to write” books that dwell on the angst ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Sure Signs

    New and Selected Poems

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    The publication of Ted Kooser's Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems is a literary event of major importance. Long admired and praised by other poets, Kooser is also accessible to the reader not familiar with contemporary poetry. ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Seven Skies All at Once

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Illustrated by Matt Myers ...
    "Kooser’s picturesque poetry vividly shapes his living sky metaphors. . . A lofty concept and radiant illustrations will leave readers on cloud nine." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The skies are hanging their freshly washed—and sweepingly illustrated—clouds out to dry in Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Ted Kooser’s celestial ode to an approaching rainstorm.One sky unpins damp sheets of cirrus. ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Delights & Shadows

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry“Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance.”—Poetry"[Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Braided Creek

    A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition

    by Ted Kooser, Jim Harrison ...
    In her loving Foreword to this expanded anniversary edition, Naomi Shihab Nye writes “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry is one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends… This slim volume acts as a palate-cleanser, a spirit-booster, a little rocket-ship of wonders.”While Ted Kooser and Jim ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Kindest Regards

    New and Selected

    by Ted Kooser ...
    “Kooser . . . must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Nothing escapes him; everything is illuminated.” —Library Journal“Will one day rank alongside of Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams.” —Minneapolis Tribune“Kooser’s ability to discover the smallest detail and render it ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Wheeling Year

    A Poet's Field Book

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Flying At Night

    Poems 1965-1985

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation.In Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier works, Sure Signs (1980) and One World at a Time (1985). Taken together or read one at a time, these ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play among Figures of Speech

    by Ted Kooser, Connie Wanek ...
    Illustrated by Richard Jones ...
    Celebrated poets Ted Kooser along with Connie Wanek, and illustrator Richard Jones, explore figures of speech in a spirited and magical way—and invite our imaginations out to play.A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD