Walking Backwards

Poems 1966-2016

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Walking Backwards by John Koethe, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: John Koethe ISBN: 9780374719197
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: November 20, 2018
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: John Koethe
ISBN: 9780374719197
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: November 20, 2018
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet

. . . There*’s something
Comforting 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.

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Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet

. . . There*’s something
Comforting 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.

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