The Swimmer
John Koethe, in his tenth volume of poetry, investigates the capricious nature of everyday life. 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."
82 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux · ISBN 9780374272326
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2 editions
English
- The Swimmer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2016 · ISBN 9780374272326 This page
- The Swimmer · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 2016 · ISBN 9780374713775
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