{"product_id":"the-windflower-home-almanac-of-poetry-paperback-softback-9781496239594","title":"The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496239594","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTed Kooser (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496239594\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e156 pages, 107 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 10.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.136 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"If the Great Plains could speak, these poems would constitute its definitive and forceful utterance.\"-Larry D. Thomas, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of poems originally selected by Ted Kooser in 1980 and published by his Windflower Press, a small, independent publisher that specialized in poetry from the Great Plains. The collection contains almost two hundred poems from dozens of poets and was designed to resemble a commonplace farmer’s almanac.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Windflower Press was the sole operation of Kooser, who was later named the first U.S. poet laureate from the Great Plains. His press gained national recognition for highlighting the work of the region’s young poets, and its \u003ci\u003eWindflower Home Almanac of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e earned notice from the \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e as one of its era’s best small press books.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Editor's Note\u003cbr\u003e Making Applesauce by Kathy Mangan\u003cbr\u003e Loneliness by L. L. Zeiger\u003cbr\u003e Sunrise by Victor Contoski\u003cbr\u003e One January by ​Robert Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Jellied Moose Nose by Don Welch \u003cbr\u003e Winter Storm by Sonya Dorman\u003cbr\u003e January by Joan Colby\u003cbr\u003e Tuco Tuco by lyn lifshin\u003cbr\u003e Potatoes by Gerald Costanzo \u003cbr\u003e Crabtree’s Woman by Dave Etter\u003cbr\u003e Untitled by Theodore Enslin\u003cbr\u003e Crocus by Adelaide Blomfield \u003cbr\u003e Bloodroot by Joan Colby \u003cbr\u003e Looking at the Moon by Rachelle Benveniste \u003cbr\u003e Measuring the Tree by Gerald Costanzo \u003cbr\u003e Widow by Al Masarik\u003cbr\u003e Midcontinent by Mark Vinz\u003cbr\u003e Vermillion South Dakota by James Minor\u003cbr\u003e Star of Kodiak by Gary Holthaus\u003cbr\u003e The Furniture-Maker by Michael Waters\u003cbr\u003e Winter in Fairbanks by Franz Douskey\u003cbr\u003e Untitled by Charles Levendosky\u003cbr\u003e To the Tiger Growing Old in the Toledo Zoo by Richard Behm\u003cbr\u003e Night Rise by Susan Astor\u003cbr\u003e Farmlore by Patricia Henley\u003cbr\u003e Living with the Weather by Pamela Miller\u003cbr\u003e Song of Snow by David Steingass\u003cbr\u003e Hard Way to Learn by James Hearst\u003cbr\u003e Baling Wire by Don Welch\u003cbr\u003e Small Dark Song by Philip Dacey\u003cbr\u003e Potatoes by Kathryn Stripling\u003cbr\u003e Picking Rock by Philip Dacey\u003cbr\u003e The Stinkhorn by Anthony Sobin\u003cbr\u003e Mint by Roger Pfingston\u003cbr\u003e The Crows by Sonya Dorman\u003cbr\u003e Full Moon by William Kloefkorn\u003cbr\u003e Blackbirds by Linda Hasselstrom\u003cbr\u003e To See Such Sport by Marjorie Hawksworth\u003cbr\u003e The Round Moon by Wendy Bishop\u003cbr\u003e No Nightingales, No Nymphs by James Hearst\u003cbr\u003e Ursa Major by Robert Wrigley\u003cbr\u003e Over There by Douglas Worth\u003cbr\u003e Artichoke by Joseph Hutchison\u003cbr\u003e Neighbors by David Allan Evans\u003cbr\u003e Another April by Virginia Elson\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions by Gary C. Busha\u003cbr\u003e Lessons by Bruce Bennett\u003cbr\u003e April by Jonathan Holden\u003cbr\u003e Photo of a Retired Farmer, Big Bend, Wisconsin by Robert McRoberts\u003cbr\u003e Solemn Music by Leonard Nathan\u003cbr\u003e Equinox by Adelaide Blomfield\u003cbr\u003e Driving through Fog by Michael Waters\u003cbr\u003e Trout by Ronald Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Pruning by Ruth Moon Kempher\u003cbr\u003e Prelude by Llewellyn McKernan\u003cbr\u003e April by Barbara Winder\u003cbr\u003e Plains Song by Warren Woessner\u003cbr\u003e Poetry in a Bottle\u003cbr\u003e Dawn at the Rainbow Hill Ranch in Phoenix, Oregon by Joseph Hutchison\u003cbr\u003e Centipede, Millipede by Bruce Berger\u003cbr\u003e Herbal Teas by Ramona Weeks\u003cbr\u003e Untitled by Fred Link\u003cbr\u003e Early Peas by Roy Scheele\u003cbr\u003e Snubbing Posts by William Stafford\u003cbr\u003e Night Soil by Robert Peters\u003cbr\u003e Washday Receet by Elizabeth Banset\u003cbr\u003e Wild Sarsaparilla by Susan Hauser\u003cbr\u003e Too Many Defeats Dull the Spirit by James Hearst\u003cbr\u003e Sage \u0026amp; Disciple by Samuel Green\u003cbr\u003e Praying Mantis by Raymond Roseliep\u003cbr\u003e Some Time Walking by William Stafford\u003cbr\u003e Shelling the Kentucky Wonder by Howard Kaye\u003cbr\u003e Flowering Crab by Roy Scheele\u003cbr\u003e Somewhere Along the Way by Henry Taylor\u003cbr\u003e La Jolla Hills by Charles Fishman\u003cbr\u003e Rumors of a Summer Vacation by Steven Osterlund\u003cbr\u003e Line Storm by Mark Vinz\u003cbr\u003e Climbing Prairie Rose by Joel Cox\u003cbr\u003e Decoration Day by Ted Kooser\u003cbr\u003e Brace and Bit by Phil Hey\u003cbr\u003e The Dead by Charles Vandersee\u003cbr\u003e Magpie by Linda Hogan\u003cbr\u003e Barbed Wire by Henry Taylor\u003cbr\u003e Hen by Jean Balderston\u003cbr\u003e Combine by Rodney Torreson\u003cbr\u003e Cicadas by H. A. Maxson\u003cbr\u003e To a Garden Companion by Phyllis Tickle\u003cbr\u003e One Way to Find Asparagus by Jean Queneau\u003cbr\u003e Burning a Horse by Henry Taylor \u003cbr\u003e The Morning-Glory by Raymond Roseliep\u003cbr\u003e This Walking Stick by Harold Witt\u003cbr\u003e How to Bake Bread by Elizabeth Banset\u003cbr\u003e Duty Call by Leonard Nathan\u003cbr\u003e Small Farm by Sonya Dorman\u003cbr\u003e The Welcome Mat by Roy Scheele\u003cbr\u003e Baltimore Oriole by Raymond Roseliep\u003cbr\u003e Wildflowers by Charles Fishman\u003cbr\u003e A Woman at Her Wheel by Nancy Peters\u003cbr\u003e Bat by Arthur Smith\u003cbr\u003e Blackberries Live Here by Judith Root \u003cbr\u003e Fisherman by Linda Hogan\u003cbr\u003e Sunday Music by Carol Berge\u003cbr\u003e Zucchini by Ruth Moose\u003cbr\u003e Canning by Marc Selvaggio\u003cbr\u003e Cure for a Sty in Your Own or Your Brother’s Eye by Paul Foreman\u003cbr\u003e Crepescule by Peter Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e Untitled by Glenna Luschei\u003cbr\u003e Another August Harvest by Mordecai Marcus\u003cbr\u003e The Last of August by Peter Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e Red Winged Blackbird by Al Masarik\u003cbr\u003e Untitled by Linda Allardt\u003cbr\u003e Mid-Plains Tornado by Linda Bierds\u003cbr\u003e Sand Dial by Virginia Elson\u003cbr\u003e Kitchen Sink by Kathryn Stripling\u003cbr\u003e The Great Blue Heron by Julia Older\u003cbr\u003e Cucumbers by Ronald Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Ball Lightning by Michael Waters\u003cbr\u003e Hill Farmer by Karl Patten\u003cbr\u003e The Birds by L. L. Zeiger\u003cbr\u003e In the Field Forever by Robert Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Raspberry Moon by Susan Hauser\u003cbr\u003e Sunset by David Allan Evans\u003cbr\u003e The Creature Whose Substance Is Bliss Is Everywhere at Home by H. A. Maxson\u003cbr\u003e August by Roy Scheele\u003cbr\u003e Birdfoot’s Grampa by Joe Bruchac\u003cbr\u003e From This Delapidated Barn by Rodney Torreson\u003cbr\u003e Discovered by Shirley Buettner\u003cbr\u003e August by Richard Shelton\u003cbr\u003e Trailing the Lost Road by Michael Tarachow\u003cbr\u003e For Charlotte at Eighty-Nine by Richard Shelton\u003cbr\u003e Everything Keeps Me Here, the Swallow by Nancy McCleery\u003cbr\u003e Snake by Joe Napora\u003cbr\u003e In September by Elizabeth Searle Lamb\u003cbr\u003e To a Migrating Wren by Peter Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e Lupine by Sheila Nickerson\u003cbr\u003e Freeway Blackberries by Al Masarik\u003cbr\u003e Great Bear by Robert Hedin\u003cbr\u003e Wild Rice Moon by Susan Hauser\u003cbr\u003e After the First Heavy Frost by Joe Bruchac\u003cbr\u003e In Silence and Solitude by Thomas McGrath\u003cbr\u003e Grasshopper Leg by Ron Overton\u003cbr\u003e Old Farm in Northern Michigan by Gary Gildner\u003cbr\u003e Two Clouds by Dan Gerber\u003cbr\u003e Bargain by Stephen Lewandowski\u003cbr\u003e Flower Garden Quilt: 1960 by Denise Low\u003cbr\u003e The Season Between by Anita Skeen and Carol Barrett\u003cbr\u003e Apple Harvest along the Missouri by J. V. Brummels\u003cbr\u003e October by Ronald Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Dandelion by Hortense Roberta Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Frost by Carole Oles\u003cbr\u003e Indian Corn by Mark Vinz\u003cbr\u003e Autumn Songs by Mark Vinz\u003cbr\u003e White Creek by Anita Skeen\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Morality by Ken Poyner\u003cbr\u003e Harvest by Jeff Daniel Marion \u003cbr\u003e Stopping over in Michigan by Steve Lewandowski\u003cbr\u003e Almanacs by Frank Short\u003cbr\u003e Lowing by Margaret Ingraham\u003cbr\u003e Pheasant Season Opens: West of Shepherd by Eric Torgersen\u003cbr\u003e Thief in the Night by Jean Ducey\u003cbr\u003e November Song by Mark Vinz\u003cbr\u003e After Labor Day by Carolyn Stoloff\u003cbr\u003e A Charm for Your Doorstep by Thomas Reiter\u003cbr\u003e Fall in the Air by Tom Montag\u003cbr\u003e November by Jonathan Holden\u003cbr\u003e Facts by James Hearst \u003cbr\u003e The Story of Lava by David Allan Evans\u003cbr\u003e The Bull Rider’s Advice by David Allan Evans\u003cbr\u003e Red River Blues by Mark Vinz\u003cbr\u003e In Early Autumn by Thomas McGrath\u003cbr\u003e Inner Space by Theodore Weiss\u003cbr\u003e How the Fox Got Away by Roy Scheele\u003cbr\u003e Winter Solstice by Donald Levering\u003cbr\u003e Alive and Well by James Hearst\u003cbr\u003e Going Through Seed Catalogues in December by Joe Bruchac\u003cbr\u003e Maple by Douglas Worth\u003cbr\u003e Seeing Through by David Clewell\u003cbr\u003e The White Cows by Joyce Odam\u003cbr\u003e Stealing the Christmas Greens by Brendan Galvin\u003cbr\u003e Window by Nancy Peters\u003cbr\u003e December Song by John Judson\u003cbr\u003e December: American Bottoms Farm by Robert Wrigley\u003cbr\u003e Hunting Season Ended Yesterday by Mary Wood\u003cbr\u003e A Coal Fire in Winter by Thomas McGrath\u003cbr\u003e Wintering Over by Julia Older\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685389889816,"sku":"9781496239594","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-windflower-home-almanac-of-poetry-paperback-softback-9781496239594","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}