| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
366 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
English 206 -- From Blue Vents (1968) -- Your Day -- Montana -- Maps -- Process -- Level -- Bird -- From Domes (1973) -- Song -- Below the Coast -- Domes -- Tiny Figures in Snow -- Satie's Suits -- Power and Persuasion -- Summer -- Copley Square -- The Hand in the Breast Pocket -- From The Late Wisconsin Spring (1984) -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- Each One as She May -- A Long Lesson -- Kinderszenen -- Partial Clearance -- Picture of Little Letters -- Malignant Calm -- The Late Wisconsin Spring -- The Near Future -- The Substitute for Time -- In the Park -- From the Constructor (1999) -- Sunday Evening -- "I Heard a Fly Buzz" -- The Other Condition - Un Autre Monde -- What the Stars Meant -- The Constructor -- Fleeting Forms of Life -- Au Train -- A Parking Lot with Trees -- From Falling Water (1997) -- From the Porch -- The Constant Voice -- Sorrento Valley -- Songs My Mother Taught Me -- The Secret Amplitude -- A Pathetic Landscape -- Morning in America -- Henrietta -- Falling Water -- From North Point North (2002) -- In Italy -- Songs of the Valley -- The Other Side of the Canyon. |
| Summary |
Collected poems from Americas 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. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780374285791 (hardcover) |
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0374285799 (hardcover) |
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