The swimmer, John Koethe
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The swimmer, John Koethe
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poetry
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The swimmer
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John Koethe
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A searching new collection from America's philosopher-poet John Koethe. In his tenth volume of poetry he 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, he luxuriates 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."
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adult
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