Walking Backwards Contributor(s): Koethe, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374538700 ISBN-13: 9780374538705 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" L (1.10 lbs) 384 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Koethe, John: - John Koethe has published several books of poetry, and has received the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Kingsley Tufts 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. John's poetry books include Walking Backwards and The Swimmer. |
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