{"product_id":"walking-backwards-poems-19662016-9780374285791","title":"Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016\u003c\/strong\u003e by Koethe, John. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374285791.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet\n\n. . . There’s something\nComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents’ pipe dreams:\nThey’ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their places\nIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary tales\n\nThan parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplation\nAs a planisphere or the clouds: the vexed destinies, the shared life,\nThe sempiternal spectacle of someone preaching to the choir\nWhile walking backwards in the moment on a warm spring afternoon.\n\nJohn Koethe’s 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. Gathering for the first time his impressive and award-winning body of work, published between 1966 and 2016, Walking Backwards introduces this gifted poet to a new, wider readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256225456181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374285799","price":70.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374285791_9d576450-8b1e-46a3-a39d-6d761db1f11e.jpg?v=1779939124","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/walking-backwards-poems-19662016-9780374285791","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}