The Constructor: Poems

By John Koethe

Book Overview

"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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060193034
• ISBN13: 9780060193034
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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These ambitious meditative poems are a beautiful and shattering achievement. Wordsworth, Stevens, Eliot and Ashbery are all internalized in this demanding record of one's man's inner life. THE CONSTRUCTOR should be read by any serious reader of poetry.