Cemeteries and Galaxies

” This is poetry of reflection and digression and probing – you feel as if you’re sitting on Koethe’s back porch with him as the stars come out, having a whiskey and solving the world’s problems … The wry, melancholy charm is calculated, of course, as any good writer’s persona ought to be, but that makes it no less effective. Where poetry is concerned, style is substance.” –David Orr, The New York Times

“Its musicality is the inconspicuous polyphony of a mind-that-is-of-two-minds in motion. It’s a quiet music, hard to hear, though once you’ve got its sound in your ear, instantly recognizable … . Koethe’s words follow the unheard melody of meaning in the making and unmaking. ” –Barry Schwabsky, The Point

John Koethe has published eleven books of poetry and has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Frank O’Hara Award for Poetry. He has also published books on Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophical skepticism, and poetry, as well as the recent essay collection Thought and Poetry. He is Distinguished Professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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