Posted on 08/11/2004 6:03:16 PM PDT by Pharmboy
should have been Doug from Upland
$35,000 salary per annum? In Washington DC? Let's just hope there's a Murphy bed and shower in his LoC office.
My grandfather, Will Ferrell, was the poet laurette of Kansas.
No wait, that would be a Poet Lariat.
OK. Here's one of Ted's:
After Years
Ted Kooser
Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
fell in the Cumberlands, holding only
a handful of leaves, and an old woman
scattering corn to her chickens looked up
for an instant. At the other side
of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times
the size of our own sun exploded
and vanished, leaving a small green spot
on the astronomer's retina
as he stood on the great open dome
of my heart with no one to tell.
I would have hoped DFU would have been in the running. Perhaps at least PL of CA.
So what kind of anti-American poetry does this guy write? </ sarc>
Lets have Baxter Black next. (Look it up.)
Lets have Baxter Black next. (Look it up.)
There once was a Husker named Kooser.....
Here' another one of Ted's:
In January
Ted Kooser
Only one cell in the frozen hive of night
is lit, or so it seems to us:
this Vietnamese café, with its oily light,
its odors whose colorful shapes are like flowers.
Laughter and talking, the tick of chopsticks.
Beyond the glass, the wintry city
creaks like an ancient wooden bridge.
A great wind rushes under all of us.
The bigger the window, the more it trembles.
OK.
Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as '…probably the nation's most successful living poet,"…thinks it's an exaggeration.
This former large animal veterinarian can be followed nationwide through his column, National Public Radio, public appearances, television and also through his books, cd's, videos and website, www.baxterblack.com.
Baxter lives in Benson, Arizona, between the Gila River and the Gila monster, the Mexican border and the Border Patrol and between the horse and the cow---where the action is.
He still doesn't own a television or a cell phone, and his idea of a modern convenience is Velcro chaps.
Everything about Baxter is cowboy; his cartoonish mustache, his personality and his poetry. He makes a living shining a spotlight on the flaws and foibles of everyday cowboy life. He demonstrates that it is the truth in his humor that makes it funny.
So, in a nut shell (where some believe he may have evolved) there is considerably more to Baxter than just an entertainer. He is the real thing. Because, as he says, "It's hard to be what you aren't."
ME: NPR??
Nothing rhymes.
I don't think Ted writes that kind of poetry...(LOL)
I kinda thought this would be a tough crowd...
Loved him on Saturday Night Live. You must be quite young.
I hope he didn't teach you to spell;)
described by the New York Times as '…probably the nation's most successful living poet,"
Yeah, I know. But he's good anyway.
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