About this title: "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 that lie at the heart of things, and no contemporary investigation of the life of the mind may be called complete that does not accommodate the lush intricacy of his terrifying recognitions." -- George Bradley "I prize John Koethe's intimate expanses ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2000
Description: Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp birhgt text throughout. Owner's decorative stamp to opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial, New York, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956356ISBN:0060956356
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 0060956356. Clean, tightly bound. Front cover has a puncture and line impression. Back cover has upper left corner bends. Spine has a horizontal break. Black remainder mark on bottom of page block.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial, New York, New York, U.S. A
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956356ISBN:0060956356
Description: Fine. No Jacket. "This secret life/ Whose language is the melancholy sound the heart makes/ Beating against its cage': this is John Koethe's subject in his beautifully constructed and deeply moving new book of poems-lyrics of the dark and painfully honest inward gaze. Koethe, a philosopher by training, knows that meditation is more than just random reflection, that it is a disciplined exercise culminating in a hard-won and hence exhiliarating self-knowledge. "-Marjorie Perloff 61 pages, ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956356ISBN:0060956356
Description: New. "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 sed... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN-13:9780060956356ISBN:0060956356
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