Kenneth Koch has been called βone of our greatest poetsβ by John Ashbery, and βa national treasureβ in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation.Now, for the first time, all of the poems in his ten collectionsβfromSun Out, poems of the 1950s, toThank You, published in 1962, toA Possible World,
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
β Scribed by Kenneth Koch
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2012;2007
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 440 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307555259
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β¦ Synopsis
Kenneth Koch has been called "one of our greatest poets" by John Ashbery, and "a national treasure" in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation.
Now, for the first time, all of the poems in his ten collections-from Sun Out , poems of the 1950s, to Thank You , published in 1962, to A Possible World , published in 2002, the year of the poet's death-are gathered in one volume.
Celebrating the pleasures of friendship, art, and love, the poetry of Kenneth Koch has been dazzling readers for fifty years. Charter member-along with Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and James Schuyler-of the New York School of poets, avant-garde playwright and fiction writer, pioneer teacher of writing to children, Koch gave us some of the most exciting and aesthetically daring poems of his generation.
These poems take sensuous delight in the life of the mind and the heart, often at the same time: "O what a physical effect it has on me / To dive forever...
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