Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016
(eAudiobook)

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    [synopsis] => 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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    [subtitle] => Poems 1966-2016
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