[New-Poetry] Kooser

[David Graham]

David Mason appreciates the work of Ted Kooser for *The Dark Horse*,  
a Scottish journal I recently discovered.  The article is in a PDF  
file, address below.  The main magazine page is here:

http://www.star.ac.uk/darkhorse.html

http://www.star.ac.uk/darkhorse/archive/MasonOnKooser.pdf

Here's a snippet:

" It’s a great poem ["That Was I," fr. *Delights & Shadows*] without  
making any big gestures at greatness. It has all of Ted’s wisdom in  
it, his compassion and skepticism and respect for life.  If you open  
yourself to what this poetry offers, you have to admit that much of  
what seems so simple is deceptively so. For this reason, Ted is  
commonly compared to Frost, and while his vision is not quite Frost’s  
and his technique is less inclined to the sort of formal mastery  
Frost espoused, he is indeed a writer who repays re-reading even  
while he speaks to us directly on a first hearing. Critics who bypass  
Kooser, thinking him insufficiently complex, are missing a rigorous,  
original American voice."


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