{"product_id":"the-wheeling-year-a-poets-field-book-hardcover","title":"The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Kooser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. \u003ci\u003eThe Wheeling Year\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former U.S. poet laureate, is Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Blizzard Voices\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2006) and \u003ci\u003eValentines\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2008) and several books of prose, including \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLocal Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLights on a Ground of Darkness: An Evocation of a Place and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, all available in Bison Books editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.52 x 5.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761345233184,"sku":"9780803249707","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e92ef093ea2d25011e9e28c5b3dfa4b1.webp?v=1780205110","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-wheeling-year-a-poets-field-book-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}