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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (2002)

por Ted Kooser

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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. And Kooser 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, the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.

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Simply one of the most beautifully written books I have read. ( )
  Jimbeat | Sep 23, 2019 |
Random musings in prose from one of our best poets. He's the guy I'd like to be stranded with at a truckstop in a snowstorm. Interesting to read his prose, which is in parts lyrical, in parts elegant, and in parts reassuringly ordinary. Kooser words make me think of Andrew Wyeth's paintings, and sometimes even Edward Hopper's. There's that certain slant of light to nearly every page. He's got a fierce love of the land, in particular his own Nebraska soil, and of his neighbors who work that land. ( )
  satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |
Oh god, what did I ever think? I believe I have a contrary opinion here:

http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/Ted-Kooser-and-Jim-Harrison-in-Man-Love-Poesy-... ( )
  MSarki | Mar 30, 2013 |
Written by a poet. Essays on life in Nebraska. I enjoyed the way he saw the world and it helped me to look at the world like that for awhile; had a lot of sayings from the immigrant Czechs who settled there, and they were down to earth and true. Uplifting; heart-warming
  Betsy3 | Feb 10, 2011 |
Written by an honored poet and former insurance company executive, this biography beautifully details the author's life in the low hills of southeastern Nebraska. Kooser is a master of writing big about small things - - "seeing small." Winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003, Kooser was named the nation's poet laureate in October 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58410-2004Aug11.html (lj) ( )
  eduscapes | Apr 22, 2010 |
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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. And Kooser 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, the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.

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