
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
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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.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952-54 (2000)
- A Note on Sun Out
- Sun Out
- The Chase-First Day
- Highway Barns, the Children of the Road
- No Biography
- Ellie Campaigns after a Candidate's Defeat
- Rapping Along
- Poem
- Pericles
- The Dead Body
- Asunder
- When They Packed Up, We Went
- Atlantis Was Original
- Where Am I Kenneth?
- Without Kinship
- Everyone Is Endymion
- Gypsy Yo-yo
- In the Ashes of June
- Is Nothing Reserved for New Year, Newlyweds on Arbor Day?
- Limits
- Ohio
- No Job at Sarah Lawrence
- Poem
- Sunshine on January 15
- The Kinkaid Subway
- Guinevere, or The Death of the Kangaroo
- The Cat's Breakfast
- Your Fun Is a Snob
- The Merry Stones
- The Days to Solve
- En l'An Trentièsme de Mon Eage
- The Man
- Notes
- Thank You and Other Poems (1962)
- On the Great Atlantic Rainway
- Summery Weather
- The Brassiere Factory
- The Bricks
- January Nineteenth
- Desire for Spring
- To You
- Aus Einer Kindheit
- Spring
- In Love with You
- Poem
- Farm's Thoughts
- Geography
- The Circus
- The History of Jazz
- Collected Poems
- Pregnancy
- The Artist
- Fresh Air
- Thanksgiving
- Permanently
- Down at the Docks
- You Were Wearing
- Locks
- Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
- Thank You
- Lunch
- Taking a Walk with You
- The Railway Stationery
- The Islands
- The Departure from Hydra
- The Pleasures of Peace (1969)
- Sleeping with Women
- Irresistible
- West Wind
- We Sailed the Indian Ocean for a Dime
- The Young Park
- Poem
- Three Short Poems
- Dostoevski's The Gambler
- Hearing
- A Poem of the Forty-Eight States
- The Scales
- Ma Provence
- Coast
- Some South American Poets
- Seine
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Equal to You
- Faces
- The Pleasures of Peace
- The Art of Love (1975)
- The Circus
- The Magic of Numbers
- Alive for an Instant
- Some General Instructions
- The Art of Poetry
- On Beauty
- The Art of Love
- The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979)
- Our Hearts
- The Simplicity of the Unknown Past
- Fate
- The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951
- The Language of Shadows
- The Problem of Anxiety
- In the Morning
- The Boiling Water
- Reflections on Morocco
- To Marina
- Days and Nights (1982)
- In Bed
- The World
- Girl and Baby Florist Sidewalk Pram Nineteen Seventy Something
- With Janice
- Twenty Poems
- Days and Nights
- Cherche-Midi
- The Green Step
- One Train (1994)
- One Train May Hide Another
- Passing Time in Skansen
- Energy in Sweden
- A New Guide
- Io
- A Time Zone
- The First Step
- Poems by Ships at Sea
- Talking to Patrizia
- At the Opera
- No One Else
- L'art d'être grand-père
- On Aesthetics
- Straits (1998)
- The Human Sacrament
- Straits
- Vous Êtes Plus Beaux que Vous ne Pensiez
- Study of Time
- Currency
- My Olivetti Speaks
- Ballade
- Artificial Intelligence
- Commosso
- The True Story of the Mule
- Ulla
- The Promenade of the Ghostly Subtitles
- The Seasons
- Songs from the Plays
- New Addresses (2000)
- To "Yes"
- To Life
- To the Ohio
- To My Father's Business
- To Piano Lessons
- To Stammering
- To Kidding Around
- To Carelessness
- To Some Buckets
- To World War Two
- To Living in the City
- To My Twenties
- To Psychoanalysis
- To Testosterone
- To Driving
- To Jewishness
- To Consciousness
- To Jewishness, Paris, Ambition, Trees, My Heart, and Destiny
- To the French Language
- To Friendship
- To Orgasms
- To the Italian Language
- To Knowledge, My Skeleton, and an Aesthetic Concept
- To Tiredness
- To the Island of Hydra
- To Marijuana
- To My Old Addresses
- To Walking, the French Language, Testosterone, Politics, and Duration
- To Sleep
- To the Roman Forum
- To Angelic Circumstances
- To Experience
- To Life, Breath, and Experience
- To Fame
- To My Fifties
- To My Heart As I Go Along
- To My Heart at the Close of Day
- To Duration
- To Scrimping
- To Insults
- To High Spirits
- To Competitiveness
- To the Unknown
- To One Thing after Another
- To the Past
- To Destiny
- To Some Abstract Paintings
- To Various Persons Talked to All at Once
- To Breath
- To Old Age
- A Possible World (2002)
- Bel Canto
- A Review
- A Momentary Longing to Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
- Mountain
- To Buddhism
- A Schoolroom in Haiti
- The Expansive Water
- La Ville de Nice
- Topiary Couple
- Behavior in Thailand
- On the Acropolis
- Zones
- A Changing China
- Day and Night in Kuala Lumpur
- Proverb
- At Extremes
- Possible World
- To a Bug
- Variations at Home and Abroad
- Flight
- A Big Clown-Face-Shaped Cloud
- Roma non basta una vita
- Paradiso
- The Unfinished
- The Moor Not Taken
- Thor Not Taken
- Movement
- Primus Inter Pares
- Relations
- Barking Dogs in the Snow
- A Memoir
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
- A Note on the Text
- A Note About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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