Valentines

By: Ted Kooser

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Hardcover | 1 February 2008

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60 Pages

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14.8 x 21.0 x 1.4

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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 Valentine's Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. Kooser's valentine poems encompass all the facets of the holiday: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing. Some of the poems use the word valentine, others do not, but there is never any doubt as to the purpose of Kooser's creations.

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"If it was Ted's sacred mission to satisfy the hearts of women, he has succeeded. One exquisite valentine every year--the answer, at last, to what women want." Louise Erdrich "I am a bit stunned. I just found out that these valentines, addressed to me, all these years, are in fact part of a vast network of hearts, laced together by one man's words, 'a starburst compass pointing in all directions,' an indescribable bon-bon-mot served every February 14th, now a complete feast, between these covers. What a gift." Debra Winger "For many years I have been a recipient of Ted Kooser's incredible valentines. Valentines Day became my favorite holiday because there was never any sadness, only the knowledge that usually, on the actual Valentines Day, how he achieved this, I'll never know, these beautiful small sonnets would arrive and I'd carry them around and show them to everyone I knew. I can only hope that the readers of this book will have some part of the great pleasure it gave me to read these poems." Ellen Gilchrist

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