Poetry. In these poems, Kooser draws inspiration from overlooked details and quotidian objects, documenting "the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance"—Poetry Magazine. Deftly connecting the disparate elements of the world and communicating with absolute precision, Kooser helps to reveal the remarkable in what before was a merely ordinary world. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and compare his poems to Chekov's short stories, and some would argue that he "has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation"—Dana Gioia.
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