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Informationen zum Autor A Nebraska native, Mary K. Stillwell has studied writing in New York and, with Ted Kooser, on the plains and earned her PhD in plains literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She served as coeditor of Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry and has published her poetry widely in literary magazines and journals as well as a number of anthologies. Her full-length collection of poems is Moving to Malibu. Klappentext A Nebraska native! Mary K. Stillwell has studied writing in New York and! with Ted Kooser! on the plains and earned her PhD in plains literature from the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. She served as coeditor of Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry and has published her poetry widely in literary magazines and journals as well as a number of anthologies. Her full-length collection of poems is Moving to Malibu. "Mary K. Stillwell's biography, "The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser", is not only carefully, clearly researched and presented, but a project of genuine love. Longtime Kooser fans will cheer for more details illuminating our beloved favorite poet. New Kooser readers will find the book so inviting they too make a lifetime friend."--Naomi Shihab Nye, author of "19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East"--Naomi Shihab Nye (03/05/2013) Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations000Acknowledgments000Chronology000Part 1. Growing Up in Iowa, 193919631. Official Entry2. An Emerging Imagination3. Summers in Paradise4. Looking the Part5. King, A Dog of the North6. Moving GibraltarPart 2. Nebraska Apprenticeship, 196319697. The Move to Nebraska8. Journey to a Place of Work9. Official Entry Blank10. Running on EmptyPart 3. The Shepherd's New Song, 1970197911. A Local Habitation & a Name12. Singing the Shepherd's Song13. Not Coming to Be Barked At14. "Walking Home to You"Part 4. American Scripture, 1980199415. Sure Signs16. Common Ground17. One World at a Time18. Weather CentralPart 5. "Feeling the Speed," 1995Today19. "Lights on a Ground of Darkness"20. Winter Morning Walks21. Local Wonders22. Delights & Shadows23. "The Ripening Odor of Praise"24. "Bright Yellow Leaves Flying"Source Acknowledgments000Notes000Bibliography000Index000...
