The Wheeling Year

A Poet's Field Book

By: Ted Kooser

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Hardcover | 1 September 2014

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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 offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year.

Written by one of America's most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

Industry Reviews

Praise for Ted Kooser's Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps "Kooser is a poet by nature, and his essays have the generous feel of a man who's rolled up his sleeves, pen in hand, for a long time, choosing words as an act of beauty, and knowing the small things of the world are of great import." - Bloomsbury Review "A quietly eloquent diary of a year in a small town in Nebraska... This is a heartfelt plainspoken book about slowing down and appreciating the world around you." - Janet Maslin on CBS News Sunday Morning "Clear, generous, and imaginative, Local Wonders increases the sum of the world's best goods." - Patrice Koelsch, Speakeasy "Through his eyes we learn to see, then appreciate, the beauty and grace in everyday miracles, the comfort and sanctity in local wonders." - Booklist

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