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John Koethe
John Koethe was born in San Diego on December 25, 1945. He received an A.B. from Princeton in 1967 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1973. Since then, he has taught in the philosophy department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which he will retire as Distinguished Professor in January 2010.  His writings include eight books...



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Ninety-fifth Street
by John Koethe

In his eighth book of poems, John Koethe offers readers the reflections of a poet in midlife, an "aging child of sixty-two," passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory, time, and the mysteries of human existence. In Ninety-fifth Street , Koethe retraces narratives from his life and moves across various landscapes he once...
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