Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air

2023 Midwest Book Award finalist

"Poems dipped out of the air" describes the manner in which Ted Kooser composed the poems in Cotton Candy, the result of his daily routine of getting up long before dawn, sitting with coffee, pen, and notebook, and writing whatever drifts into his mind. Whether those words and images are serious or just plain silly, Kooser tries not to censor himself. His objective is to catch whatever comes to him, to snatch it out of the air in words, rhythms, and cadences, the way a cotton candy vendor dips an airy puff out of a cloud of spun sugar and hands it to his customer. Poems written in fun and now shared with the reader, Kooser's playful and magical confections charm and delight.

Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781496231291


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/15/2022
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 144

About the Author
Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004-6) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is an emeritus presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book (Nebraska, 2014), and Delights and Shadows.