Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems

by Jared Carter and Ted Kooser

Book Overview

For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American story. And yet what we find in Carter's poetry is endlessly new. Here, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803248571
• ISBN13: 9780803248571
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"