
"As a poet who is a teacher of philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when 'more than half my life is gone,...

Superbly written and profoundly engrossing, this collection of poems about time, memory, and the soul is the first book in eleven years from one of the most important poets at work today--multi-award winner John Koethe. FALLING WATER is a major literary event from a poet at the...