John Koethe
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Falling Water: Poems
John Koethe
“As a poet who is a teacher of philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when ‘more than half my life is gone,’ and must try to find the meaning of ‘a childish/dream of love, and then the loss of love,/and all the intricate years between.’ As funny and fresh as it is tragic and undeceived, Falling Water ranks with Wallace Stevens’ Auroras of Autumn as one of the profoundest meditations…
North Point North: New and Selected Poems
John Koethe
North Point North: New and Selected Poems showcases the work of an important contemporary American poet, winner of the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award for Poetry. These poems create a remarkable and powerful new volume, a milestone in this gifted poet’s career.
