Valentines for tenor, oboe, and piano
texts by Ted Kooser
i Pocket Poem
ii In a Light, Late-Winter Wind
iii A Map of the World
iv Screech Owl
v The Hog-Nosed Snake
vi This Paper Boat
15 minutes
For twenty-two years beginning in 1986, every Valentine’s Day, Ted Kooser (the US poet laureate from 2004-2006) sent a poem on a postcard to a mailing list of woman friends and readers that eventually numbered over two thousand. In 2008 the collection of those poems was published. Though some of the poems incorporate valentine imagery only incidentally, they all serve as reminders that, as Kooser writes in “A Map of the World”, “feelings are indelible, and longing infinite.”
texts by Ted Kooser
i Pocket Poem
ii In a Light, Late-Winter Wind
iii A Map of the World
iv Screech Owl
v The Hog-Nosed Snake
vi This Paper Boat
15 minutes
For twenty-two years beginning in 1986, every Valentine’s Day, Ted Kooser (the US poet laureate from 2004-2006) sent a poem on a postcard to a mailing list of woman friends and readers that eventually numbered over two thousand. In 2008 the collection of those poems was published. Though some of the poems incorporate valentine imagery only incidentally, they all serve as reminders that, as Kooser writes in “A Map of the World”, “feelings are indelible, and longing infinite.”
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