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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 what that means anymore, here I am, Musing o...

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 poets including William Wordsworth, Wallace S...

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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 what that means anymore, here I am, Musing ...

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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 shared life, The sempiternal spectacle of someone pre...

John Koethe's The Constructor is a scrupulous, elegant account of the meditative intellect as an instrument continually registering the passage of time. Exquisitely modulated and brutally honest, these poems would be harrowing were they not so seductively beautiful. No one writing in this country today sees as deeply as Koethe into the tears that lie at the heart of things, and no contemporary investigation of the life of the mind may be calle...

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 un...

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In his eighth book of poems, John Koethe offers readers the reflections of a poet in midlife, an "aging child of sixty-two, " passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory, time, and the mysteries of human existence. In "Ninety-fifth Street, " Koethe retraces narratives from his life and moves across various landscapes he once inhabited, in his hands these stories and places become poems of beauty, feeling, and poignant c...

From award-winning poet John Koethe, a rich and resonant new collection that moves easily between autobiographical anecdote and philosophical reflection.

John Koethe's remarkable gift to readers is an elegiac poetry that explores the transitory nature of ordinary human experience. The beautiful poems in this new collection celebrate the creative power of human beings, the only weapon we possess against time's relentless "slow approach to anonymity and death.

North Point North: New and Selected Poems" showcases the work of an important contemporary American poet, winner of the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award for Poetry. The volume opens with twenty-one new poems, some of which have appeared in "The New Yorker, " "American Poetry Review, " the "New Republic, " the "Paris Review, " and the "Kenyon Review, " among other periodicals, and in "The Best American Poems 2001, " edited by Robert Hass and Da...

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 of an individual: complicated, quotidian, and ...

How do we address philosophical arguments whose conclusions contradict our commonsense knowledge? For example: a logically impeccable argument that concludes that you cannot know that you are at this very moment reading a description of a book of philosophy. That is the problem of philosophical scepticism. Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning is an attempt to resolve how best to respond to such vexing arguments, a matter on which ther...

Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy

Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical work is informed throughout by a particular broad theme: that the semantic and mentalistic attributes of language and human life are shown by verbal and nonverbal conduct, but that they resist incorporation into the domain of the straightforwardly factual. So argues John Koethe, in contrast to the standard view that Wittgenstein's earlier and later philosophical positions are sharply opposed. In making his c...