Falling Water
Poems
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2010
80 pages
978-0-06-203486-1 (ISBN)
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Falling Water is John Koethe's first book in eleven years. These are not rarefied academic poems, but beautiful, moving, accessible poems by a poet at the height of his powers and maturity. In other words, they are actually a pleasure to read. The themes that have been central to Koethe's previous work-time, memory, the soul-are returned to here with a freshness and maturity that is astonishing. The poems are elegant, but not in any way facile; they are personal, but are animated by a detached lucidity, almost a disinterested soul searching. And they are accessible, without in any way being simplistic or sentimental.
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John Koethe is distinguished professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the first Poet Laureate of Milwaukee. His collections include Falling Water, which won the Kingsley-Tufts Award, North Point North, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Ninety-fifth Street, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize. In 2011, he received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
