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Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 384
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-53870-5
  • EAN
  • 9780374538705
  • Release date
  • 2020