On the Great Atlantic Rainway

On the Great Atlantic Rainway PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307804380
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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On the Great Atlantic Railway is Kenneth's Koch's inspired collection of 32 years of work. Koch, David Lehman said in The American Poetry Review, is "a masterly innovator . . . who has used his extravagant powers of wit and invention to enlarge the sphere of the poetic . . . he has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry."

On the Great Atlantic Rainway

On the Great Atlantic Rainway PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307804380
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
On the Great Atlantic Railway is Kenneth's Koch's inspired collection of 32 years of work. Koch, David Lehman said in The American Poetry Review, is "a masterly innovator . . . who has used his extravagant powers of wit and invention to enlarge the sphere of the poetic . . . he has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry."

On the Great Atlantic Railway

On the Great Atlantic Railway PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780679754077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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One Train

One Train PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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In this volume, the themes and variations of One Train May Hide Another, the poems by ships at sea, and the post-Apollinaire couplets of A Time Zone, for example, reveal Kenneth Koch's interest in new forms, directions and kinds of writing.

The Art of Poetry

The Art of Poetry PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472066056
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Essays, interviews, parodies and cartoons by a distinguished poet and teacher

Nothing Like It In the World

Nothing Like It In the World PDF Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307555259
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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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 into the light blue sea / Of your acquaintance!” (“In Love with You”). Here is Koch’s early work: love poems like “The Circus” and “To Marina” and such well-remembered comic masterpieces as “Fresh Air,” “Some General Instructions,” and “The Boiling Water” (“A serious moment for the water is when it boils”). And here are the brilliant later poems–“One Train May Hide Another,” the deliciously autobiographical address in New Addresses, and the stately elegy “Bel Canto”–poems that, beneath a surface of lightness and wit, speak with passion, depth, and seriousness to all the most important moments in one’s existence. Charles Simic wrote in The New York Review of Books that, for Koch, poetry “has to be constantly saved from itself. The idea is to do something with language that has never been done before.” In the ten exuberant, hilarious, and heartbreaking books of poems collected here, Kenneth Koch does exactly that.

Seasons on Earth

Seasons on Earth PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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New Addresses

New Addresses PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030755855X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at Fire Island. Koch, in this new book, talks to things important in his life -- to Breath, to World War Two, to Orgasms, to the French Language, to Jewishness, to Psychoanalysis, to Sleep, to his Heart, to Friendship, to High Spirits, to his Twenties, to the Unknown. He makes of all these "new addresses" an exhilarating autobiography of a most surprising and unforeseeable kind.

The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway

The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway PDF Author: John Gaertner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253351928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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A compelling read for history buffs and railroad enthusiasts alike.

Sleeping on the Wing

Sleeping on the Wing PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307764915
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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This book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will find it accessible and interesting. The book includes selections of poetry by twenty-three poets, among them Dickinson, Hopkins, Pound, Williams and Eliot, as well as Ginsberg, O'Hara, Baraka and Ashbery. There is also the translated work of such modern European poets such as Lorca, Rilke, Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Mayakowsky.