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"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, <i>Falling Water</i> ranks with Wallace Stevens' <i>Auroras of Autumn</i> as one of the profoundest meditations on existence ever formulated by an American Poet." <br> —John Ashbery <p>"To describe with unpromising candor the inner life of a man adrift in the waning of the 20th century is one thing, but to do it without a shred of self-pity is another. The poems of his new book, <i>Falling Water,</i> are like no one else's. In them, even the most extreme exertions of consciousness are transformed into the luminous measures of beautiful speech."<br> —Mark Strand</p> <p>"In this ambitious volume, the magnificent poet who gave us <i>The Late Wisconsin Spring</i> moves ever more swiftly and surefootedly into the deepest regions of self

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Author

Koethe, John

Publisher

Volunteer Services for the Visually Handicapped, Perennial, HarperCollins

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060952570

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.97 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14