Kenneth Koch, Author Coffee House Press $10.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-56689-008-3
This short fiction debut by New York School poet Koch ( Seasons on Earth ) is uniformly unmemorable. Rarely more than three pages in length each, these pieces are closer to travelogue than fiction, and they quickly become repetitive. The characters...
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Kenneth Koch, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (74p) ISBN 978-0-679-43417-7
Longtime readers of Koch-who have waited eight years for a new collection-might, at first glance, be disappointed by this slender volume of poems (13 in all). But the first lines of the introductory poem ``One Train May Hide Another'' (a response to
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Kenneth Koch, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (324p) ISBN 978-0-679-43418-4
This selection of poems by Koch (Seasons on Earth) is a thoroughly enjoyable assortment of work (including a few unpublished poems from the '50s). Koch's imagination is at once philosophical and fiercely whimsical; his digressions are always clever.
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Kenneth Koch, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (104p) ISBN 978-0-375-40136-7
After 15 collections of poetry, as well as various and sundry collections of plays, essays and fiction, Koch continues to delight in the audacious nonsense and language games that earned him the nickname ""Dr. Fun."" Many of the poems here--especiall
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Kenneth Koch, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (88p) ISBN 978-0-375-41027-7
""Am I a yes/ to be posed in the face of a negative alternative?/ Or has the sky taken away from me its ultimate guess/ About how probably everything is going to be eventually terrible/ Which is something we knew all along, being modified by a yes.""
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Kenneth Koch, Author Puffin Books $8.95 (98p) ISBN 978-0-14-058555-1
This book is comprised of two discursive poems: a diaristic account of Koch's impressions of Africa and the autobiographical title poem. Despite the similar free-wheeling, elliptical, run-on style, the first has a pretense to objectivitywe are given
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Kenneth Koch, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-41491-6
Koch passed away this summer at 77 after a battle with leukemia, having recently produced some of the strongest work of his career: 2000's New Addresses (an NBA finalist). These two volumes-one of new work and one of poems that preceded his 1960
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Kenneth Koch, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (112p) ISBN 978-0-375-41492-3
Koch passed away this summer at 77 after a battle with leukemia, having recently produced some of the strongest work of his career: 2000's New Addresses (an NBA finalist). These two volumes-one of new work and one of poems that preceded his 1960
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Kenneth Koch, Author, Kate Farrell, Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art New York $18.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-03-005849-3
The fortunate explorer of this magnificent volume will be enriched by new perspectives on the everlasting foundations on which artists build, in words and pictures. With exquisite care, Koch and Farrell chose paintings and creations in other media...
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Kenneth Koch, Author . Knopf $40 (761p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4499-3
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Reviewed by John Ashbery
Some poets have difficulty putting pen to paper. Kenneth Koch, on the contrary, could simply not stop producing poetry. Writing and living were all but synonymous for him. The results are brought together in his
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Kenneth Koch, Author . Knopf $35 (411p) ISBN 978-0-307-26284-4
One doesn’t go to Koch to experience the opening of the poet’s mind to the world (Ashbery’s stated desire), but for urbane, often vaudevillian, entertainments. This volume—a companion to 2005’s Collected Poems
(also...
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Kenneth Koch, Author, Jordan Davis, Introduction by , intro by Jordan Davis. Coffee House $30 (387p) ISBN 978-1-56689-176-9
One of the six or so seminal members of the New York School of poetry (including John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara), Koch died in 2002 at age 77, best known as the author of Rose, Where Did You Get that Red?
—a terrific book of poetry pedagogy.
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