Title: Great Home Repair Manual for cottage industry Poets!!!
Review: Ted Kooser really does write beautiful poetry AND "Home Repair Manual" proves Poet Ted Kooser really knows how to teach the rest of us ways to improve our own Poetry using examples from his own poetry plus the best (mostly modern) poetry of others. Great stuff and well worth the money. I was happy to see that the book is being used in classes. I learned a lot and (with Mr Koosers inspired and yet very practical advice) my poems MAY get better, at least Ted Kooser has given me hope that a couple of these little word-piles might someday sing. (but the "singing" allusion takes the tool box idea into one about raising Warblers at home... I hasten to say that when Mr Kooser's very un-stuffy book covers metaphors and similes...he also mentions bridging and consistancy.Very perceptive.) Oh well, back to the tool box, you little pile of words!
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