The Swimmer
Poems| By: | John Koethe |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780374272326 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780374713775 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A searching new collection from America's philosopher-poet John 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."