Selected Poems, 1950-1982

Selected Poems, 1950-1982 PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Selected Poems, 1950-1982

Selected Poems, 1950-1982 PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122239X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry—the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry...to the mainstream of world literature." Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review. No poet is more overdue for a single accessible volume; no career could be better to have within easy reach.

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.

Selected Poems 1954-1982

Selected Poems 1954-1982 PDF Author: John Fuller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140092288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century PDF Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131776322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867

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The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Selected Poems, 1940-1982

Selected Poems, 1940-1982 PDF Author: Norman Nicholson
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571119509
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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On the Edge

On the Edge PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307558770
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Koch’s six masterly, groundbreaking longer poems, which contain some of the poet’s most original work, full of exclamation and exaggeration but graced as well with dry wit and sophistication. Together they serve as the companion volume to the highly praised Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch.

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."

Statutes of Liberty

Statutes of Liberty PDF Author: Geoff Ward
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349224987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets. It contains an introduction to the work of these writers, followed by chapters on the central figures: Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. A postscript examines the continuing and changing influence of the New York School. The book is also concerned with deconstruction, a mode of literary analysis with which Ashbery's work in particular has come to be associated by critics in America.

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes PDF Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136806202
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.