Poetry Books by Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published Date: 1998-05-01
Categories: Drama
Kenneth Koch's lively, original, and acclaimed book of nine plays--some surrealist, some data, all readable and funny--are now available in a paperback edition. Koch has received many honors for his work, including most recently the Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
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Published Date: 1977
Categories: Education
This classic guide by the trail-blazer of teaching poetry offers ideas and techniques that are useful at all age levels, as well as wonderful poems by his students. .,."[Koch] has taken his thoughtful, giving, resourceful, and patient spirit to quite elderly and often infirm men and women, in obvious hopes of finding among them a similar responsiveness of mind and heart. If anything, the result is a more poignant and dramatic victory." -New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2012-02-08
Categories: Poetry
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.
Publisher: Knopf
Published Date: 1998
Categories: Poetry
Poems deal with love, politics, the nature of poetry, the lives of artists and writers, the seasons, time, and change
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Literary Criticism
Essays, interviews, parodies and cartoons by a distinguished poet and teacher
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Published Date: 1997
Categories: American poetry
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.
Publisher: Knopf
Published Date: 2012-07-25
Categories: Poetry
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."
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Published Date: 2007
Categories: Poetry
Draws on the full range of the New York School-educated writer's body of poetry and offers insight into his transition from high-energy comic writings into the more lyrical pieces of his later years, in a volume that includes such works as "Fresh Air," "The Pleasures of Peace," and "The Art of Poetry."
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published Date: 1999-10-06
Categories: Education
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout with pleasure. In this vivid account, Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a valuable text for all those who care about freeing the creative imagination and educating the young.
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Published Date: 2005
Categories: Fiction
An essential book for anyone interested in discovering what American literature might still hope to be, Collected Fiction includes Kenneth Koch's innocent and rambunctious novel The Red Robins, as well as Hotel Lambosa, his book of semi-autobiographical short pieces inspired by Hemingway's Nick Adams stories and Yasunari Kawabata's Palm of the Hand stories.
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2012-01-11
Categories: Education
First published to enormous acclaim in 1973, this book became a classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 1999-04-08
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Selections from the work of sixty-five poets, from Homer and Ovid to Frank O'Hara and John Ashberry, accompany a discussion of poetry, including meter, line division, rhyme, and poetic forms
Publisher: Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story
Published Date: 1993
Categories: Fiction
A collection of short stories of two pages or less features "Antonellos," "Steps," "Relations," "White Night," "A Double Standard," "In China," "The Moor of Venice," and others
Publisher: Knopf
Published Date: 2012-07-25
Categories: Poetry
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. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Puffin
Published Date: 1987-03-17
Categories: Poetry
Three long poems deal with the creative process, an aspiring baseball player, and the artifice of writing
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published Date: 2013-07-16
Categories: Drama
The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published Date: 2004-05-10
Categories: Poetry
This unusual mix of art and words is infused with the same energetic wordplay, humor, and tenderness as Kenneth Koch's best poems. Illustrated and lettered in his own hand and studded with visual puns and jokes, Koch's sweetly absurd milieu is peopled by Miles Davis, John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Lillian Hellman, Twiggy, and a host of others. Part journal, part sketchbook, and wholly original, The Art of the Possible offers a window into the world and art of one of America's most treasured poets and teachers.
