{"product_id":"the-wheeling-year-a-poets-field-book-9780803249707","title":"The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book","description":"Ted 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kooser, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527313068306,"sku":"9780803249707","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6593fc2d-abcb-4ea9-ad2a-9644cde56461.jpg?v=1731297208","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wheeling-year-a-poets-field-book-9780803249707","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}