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Poet Laureate Kooser Gets Pulitzer in Poetry
(Spelling corrected — give me a break, Alan. It was early in the morning.) The NYTimes is announcing this morning that Ted Kooser has won the Pulitzer in poetry for his book Delights and Shadows. (You may have to register to see this article.)
from the NYTimes:
Mr. Kooser, of Garland, Neb., is the poet laureate of the United States. Like Wallace Stevens, Mr. Kooser, 65, worked in life insurance for much of his career. He was vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life Insurance, where he wrote advertising copy and oversaw legal affairs; he rose daily at 4:30 a.m. to compose poetry, which he asked his secretary and colleagues to critique. He retired in 1998.
Clarity is the hallmark of Mr. Kooser’s style, with deceptively modest metaphors grounded in the Nebraska landscape. The Bloomsbury Review described his work as “like clean, clear water.”
A NYTimes interview with Kooser here.
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1 Comment
1. Alan MacKellar replies at 5th April 2005, 8:19 am :
Mr. Kooser is pleased, I’m sure, but Mr. Pulitzer might be bemused.
Alan
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