One World at a Time

In the closing poem of this new collection, a spider brushes globes of dew from her web, "one world at a time." Since Ted Kooser's poems first began to appear in print, some twenty years ago, they have moved, as he has said, 'from job to job, from love to love," with great patience and care, as if each poem were a miniature world that needed completion before being left to stand alone.