Delights & Shadows
Short poems of the Nebraska plains observe an old woman at a kitchen window, a rural cemetery, a snowfall, a father's bruised hand, each a single sharp image turned by a closing line. The poet wrote them as a retired insurance executive, in the plain-spoken tradition of the Midwest. A lyric collection, published when he was the United States Poet Laureate.
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