Cemeteries and Galaxies: Poems self-published the splendors and slums of

the splendors and slums of Guadeloupe's great city

Sherlock Holmes’ brilliant

which Kell is now seeing firsthand

The only border crossings permitted by the Conseil are mourning tours: furtive viewings of the dead in towns where the dead are still alive

In the fifth book in the sensational

Cemeteries and Galaxies: Poems self-published the splendors and slums ofJohn Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection. John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial, never satisfied search for meaning. The silent mysteries of the stars and the mute beauty of human graves have deep similarities that Koethe probes in these poems with a wondering, wandering gimlet eye