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.