The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

Ted Kooser

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of an enlightening conversation with a wise, patient friend, one willing to share everything he’ s learned about the art he spent a lifetime learning.
Ted Kooser offers tools, insights, and instructions (and warnings against instructions). Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, he schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what he believes is poetry’ s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts.                                    
An index has been added to this Bison Books edition.


  • ISBN: 0803259786
  • ISBN-13: 9780803259782
  • Author : Ted Kooser
  • Language : English
  • Format:  Book - Search for other formats
  • Condition: As new
  • Publication Date: 1/3/2007
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Price ($AUD): $21.95

  • Usual Dispatch Time: 24 hours


  • Please note that all prices are in Australian dollars
  • Some titles may be subject to availability