North Point North: New and Selected Poems" showcases the work of an important contemporary American poet, winner of the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award for Poetry. The volume opens with twenty-one new poems, some of which have appeared in "The New Yorker, " "American Poetry Review, " the "New Republic, " the "Paris Review, " and the "Kenyon Review, " among other periodicals, and in "The Best American Poems 2001, " edited by Robert Hass and David Lehman. Following are selections from Koethe's five earlier collections of poems: "Blue Vents, " "Domes, " "The Late Wisconsin Spring, " "The Constructor, " and "Falling Water." Together these poems create a remarkable and powerful new volume, a milestone in this gifted poet's career.