'Kindest Regards' serves up the quietly subversive poetry of Ted Kooser
May 29, 2018
3 minutes
Ted Kooser grew up in Iowa and now lives in rural Nebraska. For five decades, he’s written poetry in a part of the world often rudely dismissed as flyover country – that middle place jetsetters zoom past on their way to iconic cities on either coast. It’s a region regarded widely as a land where not much happens, presumably poor soil for poetry to grow.
Kooser’s poems, the best of which have been gathered in his new retrospective, , answer that cultural condescension by being seem that not much of anything is going on. Yet not far beneath the surface of the narrative, something profound inevitably glows.
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