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Article: Sally's Hair.(Book review)
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- Harvard Review
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- December 1, 2006
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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 which I'm finally going to die." The central wilderness of Koethe's new book, though, is "The ...