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Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016
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ISBN10: 0374538700
ISBN13: 9780374538705
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374538705
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Collected poems from America's searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet
. . . There's somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents' pipe dreams:
They'll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their places
In the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary tales Than parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplation
As a planisphere or the clouds: the vexed destinies, the shared life,
The sempiternal spectacle of someone preaching to the choir
While walking backwards in the moment on a warm spring afternoon. John Koethe's poems--always dynamic and in process, never static or complete--luxuriate in the questions that punctuate the most humdrum of routines, rendering a robust portrait of an individual: complicated, quotidian, and resounding with truth. Gathering for the first time his impressive and award-winning body of work, published between 1966 and 2016, Walking Backwards introduces this gifted poet to a new, wider readership.
The sempiternal spectacle of someone preaching to the choir
While walking backwards in the moment on a warm spring afternoon. John Koethe's poems--always dynamic and in process, never static or complete--luxuriate in the questions that punctuate the most humdrum of routines, rendering a robust portrait of an individual: complicated, quotidian, and resounding with truth. Gathering for the first time his impressive and award-winning body of work, published between 1966 and 2016, Walking Backwards introduces this gifted poet to a new, wider readership.
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