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Walking Backwards (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374538705)
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xCollected 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.
Author: John Koethe
ISBN-10: 0374538700
ISBN-13: 9780374538705
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By John Koethe
xJohn Koethe has published many books of poetry, including North Point North, The Swimmer, Falling Water, and has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Frank O'Hara Award. He has also published books on Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophical skepticism, and poetry, and is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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