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13%OFFTed Kooser - Blizzard Voices - 9780803259638 - V9780803259638
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Blizzard Voices

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Description for Blizzard Voices Paperback. A collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the blizzard of January 12, 1888. This book is based on the actual reminiscences of the survivors as recorded in documents from the time and written reminiscences from years later. Num Pages: 64 pages, 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 128 x 5. Weight in Grams: 86.
2007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection
2007 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)

This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the blizzard of January 12, 1888. The Blizzard Voices is based on the actual reminiscences of the survivors as recorded in documents from the time and written reminiscences from years later. Here are the haunting voices of the men and women who were teaching school, working the land, and tending the house when the storm arrived and changed their lives forever.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803259638
SKU
V9780803259638
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99-99

About Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser, Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska, is former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. In addition to his many volumes of poetry, he is the coauthor (with Steve Cox) of Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing (Nebraska 2006) and the author of The Poetry Home Repair ... Read more

Reviews for Blizzard Voices
“Bison Books has reissued Ted Kooser's Blizzard Voices, and fans of the poet will find it a must-have. In a collection that has been presented as reader’s theater, Kooser evokes the voices of different people—men, women, teachers, children—taken by surprise when the ‘Children’s Blizzard’ of 1888 swept across the Midwestern plains. . . . The book is short but powerful.”—Omaha ... Read more

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