Never heard of or read Ted Kooser, but will now. The second poem in particular has that ineluctable, juxtapositional relation of distant facts that you never can reduce to paraphrase--the poem's the only way to say it. Good choice.
Posted by Michael McCanles at November 24, 2004 7:22 PMPost a comment
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