The Swimmer: Poems

A searching new collection from America s philosopher-poetJohn 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 l [...]
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A searching new collection from America s philosopher-poetJohn 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. "