This first selected volume of Koethe's poems, opening with several new ones, culls work from throughout his career and draws the trajectory of a voice that has spoken in varied registers.
Let me stay there for a while, while evening Gathers in the sky and daylight lingers on the hills. There's something in the air, something I can't quite see, Hiding behind this stock of images, this language Culled from all the poems I've ever loved. John Koethe's remarkable gift to readers is an elegiac poetry that explores the transitory ...
Philosophy professor Koethe turns his efforts to poetry in this, his fourth book of verse. These poems are, naturally, philosophical, showing his indebtedness to both Stevens and Wittgenstein, about whom he has written a scholarly book. In several of the long-lined poems, for instance, Koethe examines the nature of thought and the status of being.
"John Koethe's "The Constructor" is a scrupulous, elegant account of the meditative intellect as an instrument continually registering the passage of time. Exquisitely modulated and brutally honest, these poems would be harrowing were they not so seductively beautiful. No one writing in this country today sees as deeply as Koethe into the tears ...
Superbly written and profoundly engrossing, this collection of poems about time, memory, and the soul is the first book in eleven years from one of the most important poets at work today--multi-award winner John Koethe. FALLING WATER is a major literary event from a poet at the height of his maturity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical work is informed throughout by a particular broad theme: that the semantic and mentalistic attributes of language and human life are shown by verbal and nonverbal conduct, but that they resist incorporation into the domain of the straightforwardly factual. So argues John Koethe, in contrast to the standard view ...
Poetry at One Remove collects the essays of contemporary American poet John Koethe. His essays address topics such as the work of particular poets, the notions of the self poetry embodies, and the relationship between poetry and theory.'
'Solemn and playful, John Koethe's poems lock themselves gradually but firmly into one's memory. His new collection offers in his own words, 'happiness, for myself and strangers.' --John Ashbery
Superbly written and profoundly engrossing, this collection of poems about time, memory, and the soul is the first book in eleven years from one of the most important poets at work today--multi-award winner John Koethe. FALLING WATER is a major literary event from a poet at the height of his maturity.
In his eighth book of poems, John Koethe offers readers the reflections of a poet in midlife, an "aging child of sixty-two," passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory, time, and the mysteries of human existence. In "Ninety-fifth Street," Koethe retraces narratives from his life and moves across various landscapes he once ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
