文档介绍：Flying at Night
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Pitt Poetry Series
Ed Ochester, Editor
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Flying at Night
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Ted Kooser
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The publication of this
book is supported by a
grant from the
Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts
Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press,
Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright © , , Ted Kooser
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN --- cloth / --- paper
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Contents
Selecting a Reader
First Snow
An Old Photograph
The Constellation Orion
The Salesman
Old Soldiers’ Home
Self-Portrait at Thirty-Nine
Christmas Eve
Visiting Mountains
The Leaky Faucet
A Frozen Stream
Living Near the Rehabilitation Home
Late February
A Drive in the Country
Spring Plowing
Sitting All Evening Alone in the Kitchen
Sure Signs
A Summer Night
In a Country Cemetery in Iowa
The Man with the Hearing Aid
The Very Old
Walking Beside a Creek
Book Club
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At the End of the Weekend
Uncle Adler
In the Corners of Fields
How to Make Rhubarb Wine
Late Lights in Minnesota
The Afterlife
A Widow
So This Is Nebraska
Fort Robinson
How to Foretell a Change in the Weather
Snow Fence
In an Old Apple Orchard
An Empty Place
After the Funeral: Cleaning Out the Medicine
The Grandfather Cap
Shooting a Farmhouse
Beer Bottle
Sleeping Cat
North of Alliance
Late September
Carrie
For a Friend
Grandfather
Looking for You, Barbara
Pocket Poem
Moles
Notes on the Death of Nels Paulssen, Farmer, at
the Ripe Old Age of
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Advice
After My Grandmother’s Funeral
A Hot Night in Wheat Country
Five ..
Abandoned Farmhouse
The Blind e as Such a Surprise
Furnace
West Window
Boarding House
A Letter from Aunt Belle
At the Bait Stan