A Man with a Rake

We can convince ourselves that we know Midwestern soil, a stream bank, the stillness of a cedar fence post, but Ted Kooser shows otherwise in this collection of eighteen poems, his fifteenth collection. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner, two-time US Poet Laureate, and, with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, the caretaker of sixty-two acres of unmeddled-with Nebraskan countryside.