The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2014
ISBN: 9780803249707
Pages: 83
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.75w x 0.52d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner

Review Citations: Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 14