Walking on tiptoe -- Tattoo -- At the cancer clinic -- Student -- Gyroscope -- New cap -- Cosmetics department -- Biker -- The Old people -- In January -- A Rainy morning -- Mourners -- Skater -- The China painters -- Memory -- Ice cave -- Mother -- A Jar of buttons -- Dishwater -- Depression glass -- Zenith -- The Necktie -- Applesauce -- Creamed corn -- Flow blue China -- Father -- Pearl -- Old cemetery -- A Winter morning -- Bank fishing for bluegills -- Four Civil War paintings by Winslow Homer -- Turkey vultures -- Pegboard -- At the county museum -- Casting reels -- Horse -- Praying hands -- Lobocraspis Griseifusa -- Home medical dictionary -- In the hall of bones -- A Jacquard shawl -- Telescope -- A Box of pastels -- Old lilacs -- Grasshoppers -- The Beaded purse -- That was I -- Screech owl -- A Spiral notebook -- The Early bird -- Starlight -- On the road -- A Washing of hands -- After years -- Garage sale -- Surviving -- A Glimpse of the eternal -- Tectonics -- A Happy birthday.

The author, a Poet Laureate of the United States, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In these poems, the author draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before was a merely ordinary world.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2005

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