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Zusatztext "A magnificent! endlessly provocative book." Informationen zum Autor John Koethe is distinguished professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the first Poet Laureate of Milwaukee. His collections include Falling Water, which won the Kingsley-Tufts Award, North Point North, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Ninety-fifth Street, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize. In 2011, he received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Klappentext 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 David Lehman. Following are selections from Koethe's five earlier collections of poems: Blue Vents, Domes, The Late Wisconsin Spring, The Constructor, and Falling Water. Together these poems create a remarkable and powerful new volume, a milestone in this gifted poet's career. Zusammenfassung 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 David Lehman. Following are selections from Koethe's five earlier collections of poems: Blue Vents ! Domes ! The Late Wisconsin Spring ! The Constructor ! and Falling Water . Together these poems create a remarkable and powerful new volume! a milestone in this gifted poet's career. ...
