num_pages: 108
description: 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 these poems would be harrowing were they not so seductively beautiful. No one writing in this country today sees as deeply as Koethe into the tears that lie at the heart of things and no contemporary investigation of the life of the mind may be called complete that does not accommodate the lush intricacy of his terrifying recognitions.-- George BradleyI prize John Koethe's intimate expanses and unsettling reveries his tender contemplations and odd mental landscapes. He is an heir to Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery and like them he gives us the sensation of thinking itself of a certain fleeting daily solitary consciousness rescued from oblivion and held aloft.-- Edward Hirsch
language: English
title: The Constructor
publisher: PerfectBound