Title: Ted Kooser's Poetry Home Repair Manual----Wonderful
Review: This is a book with the person of the author shining through. His voice is straightforward and frank and says all the right things. There is very helpful advice for novice and old-hand writers--of prose as well as poetry, as far as that goes.Passing this on to one of my students, I found her willing to listen to Ted's advice, because he was a Real Poet and because she was holding his words in her hands. She was laughing to tell me she heard me saying the same things.For my own writerly part, as I read through the book I found myself going back to some of my own work and thinking, Well yeah, that's what's wrong there! Ted Kooser is a marvelous nuts-and-bolts critic.
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