| Author: | John Koethe | ISBN: | 9780374713775 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | March 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Koethe |
| ISBN: | 9780374713775 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | March 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
A searching new collection from America’s philosopher-poet
John Koethe, in his tenth volume of poetry, investigates the capricious nature of everyday life, “the late-night jazz, great sex and all / The human shit defining what we are.” His 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. The Swimmer argues that this “energizes everything”: life’s trivialities, surprises, and disappointments, and the “terrible feeling of being just about to fall.”
A searching new collection from America’s philosopher-poet
John Koethe, in his tenth volume of poetry, investigates the capricious nature of everyday life, “the late-night jazz, great sex and all / The human shit defining what we are.” His 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. The Swimmer argues that this “energizes everything”: life’s trivialities, surprises, and disappointments, and the “terrible feeling of being just about to fall.”
