Falling Water: Poems

by John Koethe

Book Overview

"As a poet who is a teacher of philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when 'more than half my life is gone, ' and must try to find the meaning of 'a childish/dream of love, and then the loss of love, /and all the intricate years between.' As funny and fresh as it is tragic and undeceived,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060952571
• ISBN13: 9780060952570
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: PerfectBound
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

"As a poet who teaches philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when 'more than half my life is gone,' and must try to find the meaning of 'a childish/dream of love, and the loss of love,/and all the intricate years between.' As funny and fresh as it is tragic and undeceived, FALLING WATER ranks with Wallace Stevens's AURORAS OF AUTUMN as one of the profoundest meditations on existence ever formulated by an American poet." --John Ashbery