John Koethe
John Koethe has published over ten books of poetry and has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (for Ninety-fifth Street), the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (Falling Water), and the Frank O’Hara Award for Poetry (Domes). Other poetry books include Beyond Belief, Walking Backwards, and The Swimmer. He has also published books on Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophical skepticism, and poetry. He is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Walking Backwards
- By: John Koethe
- Narrator: John Koethe
- Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 10, 2019
- Language: English
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4.28(16 ratings)
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 audience.
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