The Collected Poems Of Kenneth Koch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koch, Kenneth

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the first time, all of the poems in Koch's 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. 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. --From publisher description.

Contents:

Sun out: selected poems 1952-54 (2000)

Thank you and other poems (1962)

The pleasures of peace (1969)

The art of love (1975)

The burning mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979)

Days and nights (1982)

One train (1994)

Straits (1998)

New addresses (2000)

A possible world (2002).

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

1-4000-4499-5