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John Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection.John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial, never-satisfied search for meaning.The silent mysteries of the stars and the mute beauty of human graves have deep similarities that Koethe probes in ... Read more

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John Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection.John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial, never-satisfied search for meaning.The silent mysteries of the stars and the mute beauty of human graves have deep similarities that Koethe probes in
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The Swimmer

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Falling Water

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Beyond Belief

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A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the "necessary and great poet" (Hyperallergic).It’s presumptuous, but if you’re reading this youProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:The “world”—both the word and what it stands for—and time,Which is or isn’t real, depending on my mood. I’ve alwaysHated poems about philosophy, and I hope I still do,But since I don’t know ... Read more

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A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the "necessary and great poet" (Hyperallergic).It’s presumptuous, but if you’re reading this youProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:The “world”—both the word and what it stands for—and time,Which is or isn’t real, depending on my mood. I’ve alwaysHated poems about philosophy, and I hope I still do,But since I don’t know
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Thought and Poetry

Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth

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Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Addressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe's thoughts on the connections between the two forms and makes a significant contribution to unsettling the oppositions that separate them.The essays traverse the philosophical conception of the self in modern poetry and locate connections between ... Read more

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Addressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe's thoughts on the connections between the two forms and makes a significant contribution to unsettling the oppositions that separate them.The essays traverse the philosophical conception of the self in modern poetry and locate connections between
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Walking Backwards

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Collected poems from America's searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet. . . There ' s somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents ' pipe dreams:They ' ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their placesIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary talesThan parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplationAs a planisphere or the clouds: th... ... Read more

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Collected poems from America's searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet. . . There ' s somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents ' pipe dreams:They ' ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their placesIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary talesThan parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplationAs a planisphere or the clouds: th...
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Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...

Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Read more

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A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal
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The Constructor

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Ninety-fifth Street

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A Harper Perennial paperback original, Ninety-fifth Street is a beautiful new collection of poems by John Koethe, acclaimed by poet Edward Hirsch as an heir to Wallace Stevens. In this, his eighth book of poems, Koethe, the author of North Point North and Falling Water, offers readers the reflections of a poet in mid-life, an “aging child of 62,” passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to ... Read more

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A Harper Perennial paperback original, Ninety-fifth Street is a beautiful new collection of poems by John Koethe, acclaimed by poet Edward Hirsch as an heir to Wallace Stevens. In this, his eighth book of poems, Koethe, the author of North Point North and Falling Water, offers readers the reflections of a poet in mid-life, an “aging child of 62,” passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to
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Walking Backwards

Poems 1966-2016

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Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet....There*’s somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents’* pipe dreams:They*’**ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their placesIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary talesThan parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplationAs a planisphere or the clouds: the vexed destinies, the s.. ... Read more

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Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet....There*’s somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents’* pipe dreams:They*’**ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their placesIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary talesThan parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplationAs a planisphere or the clouds: the vexed destinies, the s..
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