Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems

Ted Kooser

Heartland – This book is a fine introduction to the two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer-Prize winning writer who was born in Iowa and has long lived in Nebraska. You can hear the prairie breeze singing through his words. From “Pearl” –

I called out, “Pearl,
it’s Ted. It’s Vera’s boy,” and my voice broke,
for it came to me, nearly sixty, I was still
my mother’s boy, that boy for the rest of my life.