Sally's Hair.(Book review)

Harvard Review | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

Sally's Hair by John Koethe, HarperCollins, 2006, $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0060789433.

Sally's Hair is John Koethe's seventh collection and it offers the reader as much well-thought-out and beautifully expressed poetry within a single volume as I've seen in a very long time. It is Koethe's best so far.

Though not a "political" book, Sally's Hair gives us a poem in what has, alas, become the 9/11 genre. "Poetry and the War," a strong poem, yet restrained in its anger, trumps the genre, leaving us to stare "ashamed and numb" at the "wilderness of this century in ...

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