Sure Signs

New and Selected Poems

Ted Kooser

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822979265
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Selecting a Reader
• First Snow
• An Old Photograph
• The Constellation Orion
• The Salesman
• Old Soldiers' Home
• Self-Portrait at Thirty-Nine
• Christmas Eve
• August
• At the Bus Stop Next to the Funeral Home
• Visiting Mountains
• The Leaky Faucet
• The Soul of Twins
• A Frozen Stream
• Living near the Rehabilitation Home
• Late February
• A Drive in the Country
• Spring Plowing
• Sitting All Evening Alone in the Kitchen
• Sure Signs
• The Skeleton in the Closet
• A Summer Night
• In a Country Cemetery in Iowa
• The Man with the Hearing Aid
• The Very Old
• Walking Beside a Creek
• Book Club
• At the End of the Weekend
• Uncle Adler
• In the Corners of Fields
• How to Make Rhubarb Wine
• Late Lights in Minnesota
• The Afterlife
• A Widow
• So This Is Nebraska
• Fort Robinson
• How to Foretell a Change in the Weather
• Snow Fence
• In an Old Apple Orchard
• An Empty Place
• In the Kitchen, at Midnight
• After the Funeral: Cleaning Out the Medicine Cabinet
• The Grandfather Cap
• Shooting a Farmhouse
• Beer Bottle
• Sleeping Cat
• North of Alliance
• Late September
• Carrie
• For a Friend
• Grandfather
• Looking for You, Barbara
• Pocket Poem
• Moles
• Notes on the Death of Nels Paulssen, Farmer, at the Ripe Old Age of 93
• Advice
• After My Grandmother's Funeral
• A Hot Night in Wheat Country
• Five P.M.
• Abandoned Farmhouse
• The Blind Always Come as Such a Surprise
• Furnace
• West Window
• Boarding House
• The Geek
• A Letter from Aunt Belle
• At the Bait Stand
• The Tattooed Lady
• A Death at the Office
• There Is Always a Little Wind
• The Widow Lester
• Houses at the Edge of Town
• The Old Woman
• A Place in Kansas
• Tom Ball's Barn
• My Grandfather Dying
• The Red Wing Church
• Highway 30
• Birthday
• The Failed Suicide
• A Hairnet with Stars
• The Goldfish Floats to the Top of His Life
• They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office
• A Presidential Poem
• Year's End
• New Year's Day
• A Dry Winter Letter to Friends
• Walking to Work
• Sunday Morning
• About the Author