Sun out : selected poems, 1952-1954 / Kenneth Koch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 141 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.

Summary:

Gathered together for the first time -- the exciting and startling early work of one of our finest poets. Writing as a young man in 1950s New York, Kenneth Koch experimented with the delicate balance between sound and sense to offer a series of poems resembling music or abstract painting. From the title poem: "Bananas, piers, limericks / I am postures / Over there, I, are / The lakes of delectation / Sea, sea you!"

Also included are a selection of short plays in verse and Koch's great innovative masterpiece, "When the Sun Tries to Go On, " a poem that "produces a radical reworking of the life-poem myth predominant in American poetics since Song of Myself" (William Watkins).

When the poems in Sun Out were originally published, they set a standard for the freshness and surprise of language used in extraordinary ways. For almost five decades they have delighted readers lucky enough to find them; happily they are now back in print.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0375414916

0375709991

OCLC:

48958124