Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an audience of everyday readers and believes poets "need to write poetry that doesn't make people feel stupid." Each poem in
Red Stilts strives to reveal the complex beauties of the ordinary, of the world that's right under our noses. Right under Kooser's nose is rural America, most specifically the Great Plains, with its isolated villages, struggling economy, hard-working people and multiple beauties that surpass everything wrecked, wrong, or in error.
- Former U.S. Poet Laureate
- Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
- One of America's best-selling poets
- Delights and Shadows is a perennial backlist engine, with lifetime sales approaching 100,000 units
- founding editor of weekly newspaper column "American Life in Poetry," with total circulation of 3.5 million
- Proudly one of the most accessible poets writing today, insisting that he never wants a reader to feel stupid
- Any book of poems from Ted Kooser is cause for celebration
