Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps Contributor(s): Kooser, Ted (Read by) |
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ISBN: 143322433X ISBN-13: 9781433224331 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail, humor, and pithy Bohemian proverbs the place he calls home in the rolling hills of Nebraska, where what makes life meaningful are the extraordinary within the small, ordinary things of life. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Travel | United States - Midwest - General |
Dewey: 978.23 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.17 lbs) |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Cultural Region - Midwest |
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Publisher Description: Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of his grandmother's cooking. Kooser also reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed control, and irresponsible housing development destroy more than just the view. What makes life meaningful for Kooser are the ways in which his neighbors care for one another and how an afternoon walking with an old dog, baking a pie, or decorating the house for Christmas can summon memories of his Iowa childhood. This writer sees the extraordinary within the ordinary, the deep beneath the shallow, and the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kooser, Ted: - Ted Kooser is a poet, essayist, and a Presidential Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as the US poet laureate from 2004 to 2006, and his book Delights & Shadows won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He lives in Nebraska with his family. |