North Point North

"North Point North: New and Selected Poems" showcases the work of an important contemporary American poet, winner of the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award for Poetry.

The volume opens with twenty-one new poems, some of which have appeared in "The New Yorker," "American Poetry Review," the "New Republic," the "Paris Review," and the "Kenyon Review," among other periodicals, and in "The Best American Poems 2001," edited by Robert Hass and David Lehman. Following are selections from Koethe's five earlier collections of poems: "Blue Vents," "Domes," "The Late Wisconsin Spring," "The Constructor," and "Falling Water." Together these poems create a remarkable and powerful new volume, a milestone in this gifted poet's career.