Cotton Candy
eBook - ePub

Cotton Candy

Poems Dipped Out of the Air

  1. 86 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cotton Candy

Poems Dipped Out of the Air

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Word from the Author
  9. I
  10. Cotton Candy
  11. Spider
  12. A Windy January Morning
  13. Wind in the Chimney
  14. A Light Snow in Late March
  15. Spring
  16. Turtles
  17. Handoff
  18. Culvert
  19. Shadows at Sunset
  20. Clouds and Moon
  21. Toad
  22. Easter Morning
  23. Burning the Prairie
  24. Raindrop
  25. Bucket
  26. In a Glade
  27. In Light from a Single Lamp
  28. II
  29. Following the Weather
  30. Rowboat
  31. In May
  32. Harpist
  33. Dandelion
  34. Yellowjacket
  35. A Brief Shower
  36. The Candle’s Butterfly
  37. A Kitchen Drawer
  38. A Breezy Summer Morning
  39. A Thump
  40. A Lake of Starlight
  41. Bicycles on Top of Cars
  42. Two Horses
  43. A New Moon
  44. A Sudden Storm
  45. A Walk with my Shadow
  46. In Midsummer
  47. One Cloud
  48. III
  49. Birdhouse
  50. A Sighting
  51. A Sound in the Night
  52. In a Shed
  53. A Cloudy Sunrise
  54. A Novelty
  55. In a Cold Late-Afternoon Rain
  56. A Fluttering
  57. Melon
  58. A Falling Feather
  59. A Few Things in Their Places
  60. A Light in a Farmyard
  61. A Seascape
  62. Full Moon
  63. A Dervish of Leaves
  64. IV
  65. A Windy Monday
  66. Egg Carton
  67. Cornshucks
  68. A Winter Landscape
  69. A Leaf in Wind
  70. On a Dark Winter Morning
  71. Pleasures of Snow
  72. An Oriole Nest in Winter
  73. November Snow
  74. After an Ice Storm
  75. A Falling Branch
  76. Fresh Snow, with Deer Tracks
  77. A Man Walking in Deep Snow
  78. Icicle
  79. A Stand of Ornamental Grass
  80. A Special Kind of Sunset
  81. About Ted Kooser