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About this book
Finalist for the 2023 Midwest Book Award
Finalist for the 2023 Heartland Booksellers Award
“Poems dipped out of the air” describes the manner in which Ted Kooser composed the poems in Cotton Candy, the result of his daily routine of getting up long before dawn, sitting with coffee, pen, and notebook, and writing whatever drifts into his mind. Whether those words and images are serious or just plain silly, Kooser tries not to censor himself. His objective is to catch whatever comes to him, to snatch it out of the air in words, rhythms, and cadences, the way a cotton candy vendor dips an airy puff out of a cloud of spun sugar and hands it to his customer. Poems written in fun and now shared with the reader, Kooser’s playful and magical confections charm and delight.
Finalist for the 2023 Heartland Booksellers Award
“Poems dipped out of the air” describes the manner in which Ted Kooser composed the poems in Cotton Candy, the result of his daily routine of getting up long before dawn, sitting with coffee, pen, and notebook, and writing whatever drifts into his mind. Whether those words and images are serious or just plain silly, Kooser tries not to censor himself. His objective is to catch whatever comes to him, to snatch it out of the air in words, rhythms, and cadences, the way a cotton candy vendor dips an airy puff out of a cloud of spun sugar and hands it to his customer. Poems written in fun and now shared with the reader, Kooser’s playful and magical confections charm and delight.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Word from the Author
- I
- Cotton Candy
- Spider
- A Windy January Morning
- Wind in the Chimney
- A Light Snow in Late March
- Spring
- Turtles
- Handoff
- Culvert
- Shadows at Sunset
- Clouds and Moon
- Toad
- Easter Morning
- Burning the Prairie
- Raindrop
- Bucket
- In a Glade
- In Light from a Single Lamp
- II
- Following the Weather
- Rowboat
- In May
- Harpist
- Dandelion
- Yellowjacket
- A Brief Shower
- The Candle’s Butterfly
- A Kitchen Drawer
- A Breezy Summer Morning
- A Thump
- A Lake of Starlight
- Bicycles on Top of Cars
- Two Horses
- A New Moon
- A Sudden Storm
- A Walk with my Shadow
- In Midsummer
- One Cloud
- III
- Birdhouse
- A Sighting
- A Sound in the Night
- In a Shed
- A Cloudy Sunrise
- A Novelty
- In a Cold Late-Afternoon Rain
- A Fluttering
- Melon
- A Falling Feather
- A Few Things in Their Places
- A Light in a Farmyard
- A Seascape
- Full Moon
- A Dervish of Leaves
- IV
- A Windy Monday
- Egg Carton
- Cornshucks
- A Winter Landscape
- A Leaf in Wind
- On a Dark Winter Morning
- Pleasures of Snow
- An Oriole Nest in Winter
- November Snow
- After an Ice Storm
- A Falling Branch
- Fresh Snow, with Deer Tracks
- A Man Walking in Deep Snow
- Icicle
- A Stand of Ornamental Grass
- A Special Kind of Sunset
- About Ted Kooser