For five decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner and 13th US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has delighted readers with his discoveries of the magic within ordinary life. Selected by the poet, the poems in Kindest Regards survey Kooser's career and include a generous selection of new poems. Set beneath the immense skies of the Great Plains, each page invites a new way of seeing: the bright streak of color in the snowfield, the pas de deux of trash collectors, the solid authority of a leaning ladder. At Kooser's table, every visitor is welcome-living and remembered, animal and human. He approaches the intricacies of relationships through the clear language of everyday speech. Here, one of America's most beloved voices offers honesty and true affection for humankind, at a time when both are sorely needed. Book jacket.