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Author Kooser, Ted.

Title Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 / Ted Kooser.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  811.54 KOOSER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  811.54 KOOSER    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  811 KOO    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  811.54 KOO    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  811.54 KOO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.54 K83    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  811.54 K83F    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  811 KOOSER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  811.54 KOOSER    Check Shelf
Description 142 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
Contents [pt. 1]. Sure signs -- Selecting a reader -- First snow -- An old photograph -- The constellation Orion -- The salesman -- Old soldiers' home -- Self-portrait at thirty-nine -- Christmas Eve -- Visiting mountains -- The leaky faucet -- A frozen stream -- Living near the rehabilitation home -- Late February -- A drive in the country -- Spring plowing -- Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen -- Sure signs -- A summer night -- In a country cemetery in Iowa -- The man with the hearing aid -- The very old -- Walking beside a creek -- Book club -- At the end of the weekend -- Uncle Adler -- In the corners of fields -- How to make rhubarb wine -- Late lights in Minnesota -- The afterlife -- A widow -- So this is Nebraska -- Fort Robinson -- How to foretell a change in the weather -- Snow fence -- In an old apple orchard -- An empty place -- After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet -- The grandfather cap -- Shooting a farmhouse -- Beer bottle -- Sleeping cat -- North of Alliance -- Late September -- Carrie -- For a friend -- Grandfather -- Looking for you, Barbara -- Pocket poem -- Moles -- Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93 -- Advice -- After my grandmother's funeral -- A hot night in wheat country -- Five P.M -- Abandoned farmhouse -- The blind always come as such a surprise --
Furnace -- West window -- Boarding house -- A letter from Aunt Belle -- At the bait stand -- The tattooed lady -- A death at the office -- There is always a little wind -- The Widow Lester -- Houses at the edge of town -- The old woman -- A place in Kansas -- Tom Ball's barn -- My grandfather dying -- The Red Wing Church -- Highway 30 -- Birthday -- The failed suicide -- The goldfish floats to the top of his life -- They had torn off my face at the office -- Year's end -- New Year's Day -- Walking to work -- Sunday morning -- [pt. 2]. One world at a time -- Flying at night -- A fencerow in early March -- Just now -- A birthday card -- In the basement of the Goodwill Store -- Camera -- A room in the past -- In January, 1962 -- Tillage marks -- A child's grave marker -- Father -- At midnight -- Central -- The fan in the window -- Myrtle -- Daddy longlegs -- Good-bye -- The giant slide -- A roadside shrine in Kansas -- Decoration day -- A Monday in May -- A buffalo skull -- Laundry -- The mouse -- Ladder -- Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska -- A patch of sunlight -- Carp -- At the center -- A sunset -- The ride -- At nightfall -- At the office early -- Cleaning a bass -- An empty shotgun shell -- A quarter moon just before dawn -- A letter -- Latvian neighborhood -- The Voyager II satellite -- The witness -- As the President spoke -- The pitch -- The sigh -- The onion woman -- Hobo jungle -- An August night -- The urine specimen -- Geronimo's mirror -- Porch swing in September.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century.
Poetry.
Poetics.
ISBN 0822942585 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780822942580 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0822958775 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822958772 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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