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Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016
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.
- Undertittel
- Poems 1966-2016
- Forfatter
- John Koethe
- ISBN
- 9780374538705
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 499 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 1.1.2020
- Antall sider
- 384
