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FSG, paperback
Publication Date: March 14, 2017
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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.”
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