ANGE MLINKO REVIEWS JOHN KOETHE'S WALKING BACKWARDS: POEMS 1966–2016 "In a prefatory poem, an ars poetica written to launch this chronological selection, Koethe unabashedly takes us back to where it all began: 'Yeats and Frost, Pound and Eliot, / Stevens, Moore, seen as from a peak in Darien in a college course.' What flows forward from this backward-looking poem is an evolving, cohering, always-recapitulating testament to an inner life torn between the perspectives of a fundamentally Romantic poet and a philosophically 'die-hard realist.'” via THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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