the table are gone."I really believe that writing about family can give them a little bit of immortality. It was a way for me to take a family of very ordinary people and elevate them into the light, to keep them alive," [Ted] Kooser said.
"I have written a lot of poetry about family members. When someone comes upon a poem about my mother, they come into the light."
From his Nebraska farm near Lincoln, where he serves as a writing professor at the University of Nebraska, the irises of his ancestors still bloom.
from Des Moines Register: Iowa poet hopes his work will inspire others to write about their families
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