Comments on: john koethe | re-visited http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/ Norbert Blei's Poetry Dispatch and other Notes from the Underground. “We live to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection,” said Anaїs Nin. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:30:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: johnewordslinger http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-3512 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:05:28 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-3512 The Poem, THE RECLUSE, is really cool to me, lol, loved it… thank you… WS

]]> By: jonwolston http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-1817 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:11:54 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-1817 Hey look, this poet is also a philosopher. So he’s writing about subjects dear to the wisdom-loving community, such as Consciousness, the Soul, Fullness and Emptiness, Form and Formlessness, using English instead of jargon. He also has a keen psychological eye for the mind’s well-oiled mechanisms of defense—ah yes, the defenses, always the defenses—”the intricate evasions” of our lives universally engendered by the “nagging fears” of existence.

Which reminds me of stepping out the back-stage door after tenth-grade play rehearsals. Suddenly I was no longer Reverend Lloyd in “Life with Father.”
The linoleum was shining back at me in front of the Principal’s office.

]]> By: Mike Koehler http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-1811 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:11:53 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-1811 The Late Wisconsin Spring is one of my favorite home-grown books. I salute your discovery of Koethe. Enjoy.

]]> By: jude, hey http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-1810 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:10:19 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-1810 Yegads … what I can understand of his work, reads downright dreary to me. But yes ~~ its been a tough year Mr. Bleeeee.

]]> By: Barbara Fitz Vroman http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-1809 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:43:12 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-1809 Not so much a comment, as a question to myself. Why did the last poem
somehow erase or diminish my initial applause for his words, for the self
behind the words, into something lesser? The something lesser…a sadness,
a losing of the grandeur of the ordinary…suddenly dust in corners, the smell of milldew, a statute falling over and breaking into pieces. Maybe he is telling me that those more melancholy times of life are also part of the beauty, part of
the grandeur of the ordinary.

]]> By: Jean Casey http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-1807 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:54:11 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-1807 Phew! ” Nothing” can probably “ever happen” to someone with that staggering density of thought racing around like a gerbil on a wheel. “To be or not to be” squared!
Prufrock revisited?
Mean Jean

]]> By: Annamarie Causer http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/john-koethe-re-visited/#comment-1806 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:56:37 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4406#comment-1806 Really really heart-warming and gentle feeling…enjoyed them all…..

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