THE SWIMMER

A searching new collection from Americas philosopher-poetJohn Koethe, in his tenth volume of poetry, investigates the capricious na ture 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 port rait of an individual: complicated, quotidian, and resounding with truth. The Swimmer argues that this energizes everything: life s trivialities,...[Llegir més]