The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

<DIV><P>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. <BR></P><P>Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. <I>The Wheeling Year</I> offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. <BR></P><P>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.<BR></P><P> </DIV></P>