The Swimmer

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: John Koethe ISBN: 9780374713775
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: March 15, 2016
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: John Koethe
ISBN: 9780374713775
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: March 15, 2016
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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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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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