Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air Poetry_Gift_Guide The boy himself is at

The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story

from his tiny mobile-home kitchen

her first in twenty-five years

streetwise ex con-artist-turned-defense attorney

blood-chilling conclusion

Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air Poetry_Gift_Guide The boy himself is atPoems dipped out of the air describes the manner in which Ted Kooser composed the poems in Cotton Candy, the result of his daily routine of getting up long before dawn, sitting with coffee, pen, and notebook, and writing whatever drifts into his mind. Whether those words and images are serious or just plain silly, Kooser tries not to censor himself. His objective is to catch whatever comes to him, to snatch it out of the air in words, rhythms, and