The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser

The Poetry Home Repair Manual

Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

by Ted Kooser

University of Nebraska Press, 2007
ISBN 9780803259782
Paperback

Condition: Near Fine
minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to corners and covers (see photographs)

“Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of an enlightening conversation with a wise, patient friend, one willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he spent a lifetime learning.
Ted Kooser offers tools, insights, and instructions (and warnings against instructions).  Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the world of a number of successful contemporary poets, he schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what he believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts.”