The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.

Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year.

Written by one of America’s most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

• Lights on a Ground of Darkness: An Evocation of a Place and Time
• Splitting an Order
• Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry
• The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser
• The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
• Splitting an Order
• Delights & Shadows
• Kindest Regards: New and Selected
• Winter Morning Walks : 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison (Poetry Series)
• Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)