John Koethe, author of BEYOND BELIEF - an in-person Boswell event

2559 North Downer Avenue,Milwaukee WI 53211

13 September, 2022

Description

Boswell presents an evening with John Koethe, author of Beyond Belief, a rich, meditative new collection of poetry. In Beyond Belief, John Koethe poses eternal and essential questions about the rhythms of time, language and literature, and "the space between attention and belief." The eleventh book of poetry from America's philosopher-poet is an intimate, searching collection that gives life to the mundane and lends words to our most interior and abstract musings. What makes a life real? Words on a page, the accumulation of moments and memories, or nothing at all? And what is it worth? Locked inside, have we lost our future and its promises or are we merely pressed to inhabit our present and ourselves? The award-winning poet invites us into his consideration of our world, as "an ordinary person sitting on his balcony on a summer afternoon, / Waiting patiently for someone to explain it to and meanwhile / Living quietly in his imagination, imagining the afterlife." John Koethe has published over ten books of poetry, including Ninety-fifth Street, Falling Water, and Domes, 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. He is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Click here to purchase your copy of Beyond Belief. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.