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The collected poems of Kenneth Koch.

by Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002.

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American poetry -- 20th century

9780375711190 (pbk.)

0375711198 (pbk.)

9781400044993 (hc.)

1400044995 (hc.)

Poems. Selections

xiii, 761 p. ; 25 cm.

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).

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).

"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. These poems take sensuous delight in the life of the mind and the heart, often at the same time. 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" And here are the brilliant later poems--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"--Provided by publisher.

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