Author

Publication

1994 - A.A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads1584029
  • LibraryThing130279

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3521.O27 A6 1994

Description

In this new selection of the poetry of Kenneth Koch - "one of our greatest poets" (John Ashbery) - Koch's brilliance, aesthetic daring, and virtuosity are everywhere apparent. Included here are selections from his book-length narrative poems, Ko and The Duplications, and from his dazzlingly incomprehensible (by ordinary means), fractured epic When the Sun Tries to Go On; poetic plays such as Pericles, Guinivere, Bertha, and six of his One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays; "instructional" poems - from The Art of Love - in which an old genre is splendidly revived; lyric, satiric, and sympathetic poems on the state of the arts - "Fresh Air" and "The Artist"; radically inventive love poems - "West Wind," "To Marina," "With Janice"; and the memorable autobiographical poems "On the Edge" and "Seasons of the Earth."

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Other Editions

  • On the great Atlantic rainway: selected poems, 1950-1988A.A. Knopf1994-01-01

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