Kenneth Koch

The first compilation of ten collections of poetry spanning the forty-year career of the award-winning poet is gathered in a single volume of poems celebrating love, art, and the pleasures of the senses. 10,000 first printing.

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch

Selected Poems 1950-1988

On the Great Atlantic Rainway

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

The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

Making Your Own Days

Ron Padgett

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.

Teaching Children to Write Poetry

Wishes, Lies, and Dreams

Frank O'Hara

James Schuyler

John Ashbery

Barbara Guest

Alejandro Morellón

Juan F. Rivero

Ojeda, Mónica

Carlos Recamán

Leonor Saro

Antología

La escuela poética de Nueva York

Kate Farrell

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.

An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing

Sleeping on the Wing

Three long poems deal with the creative process, an aspiring baseball player, and the artifice of writing

Seasons on Earth

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

Poems, Parodies, Interviews, Essays, and Other Work

The Art of Poetry

Harry Mathews

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Locus Solus

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.

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.

Teaching Great Poetry to Children

Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?

Seven long verses explore demands of poetry, the nature of beauty, and the forms and occasions of love

Poems

The Art of Love

When the Sun Tries to Go on

The Duplications

A Play

The Red Robins

'The New York Poets' gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler.

Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler : an Anthology

The New York Poets

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Management Advice You Should Have Been Given Long Ago

Bastards

Brief plays and skits deal with imperial and modern China, seventeenth century Spain, costume history, philosophy, and historical change

One Thousand Avant-garde Plays

And Other Poems

The Pleasures of Peace

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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