Author

Publication

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

Language

English

Word Count

18,500 words, Guess

Page Count

74 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads150359
  • LibraryThing417055

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3521.O27 O55 1994

Description

"Intensely serious beneath a surface of lightness and wit, Kenneth Koch's poems "maintain power," Denis Donoghue wrote, "by rarely choosing to exert it." Koch's virtuosity - he has written many plays, an extravagant novel (The Red Robins), and short stories (Hotel Lambosa), and has done numerous collaborations with painters - seems part of a continuing and energetic attempt to write (in the words of Ariosto) "things never said in prose before or in verse." Almost every poem is a new kind of poem, a new flight - in this volume, for example, the theme and variations of "One Train May Hide Another," the "Poems by Ships at Sea," the post-Apollinairean couplets of "A Time Zone," the Chinese poetry-influenced quatrains of "The First Step," and the hundred or so brief poems that together make up the poem "On Aesthetics.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • One train: poemsAlfred A. Knopf1994-01-01

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