The Constructor

the long version

A brilliant new collection of poetry by the winner of the Kingley Tufts Poetry Award and author of Falling Water, hailed by John Ashbery as one of the greatest American poets since Wallace Stevens. John Koethe's recent honor as the winner of the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Falling Water confirms his status as one of the nation's most important poets. He has been included in this year's Best American Poetry, was a finalist for the Boston Book Review literary prize, and received an award from Southwest Review for the best poem published in 1998. He has also won the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry, two Academy of American Poets Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and the Bernard F. Connors Award from the Paris Review. In addition to Ashbery, Koethe counts among his enthusiastic supporters Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, and Richard Howard.