
A Possible World
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The three long poems -- "Bel Canto,” "Possible World,” and "A Memoir” -- in this brilliant successor to New Addresses are ambitious attempts at rendering the complete story of a life. Taken together they present a dazzling picture of the pleasures and confusions of existence, as well as the pleasures and difficulties of expressing them.
Other poems bring Koch's questioning, lyrical attention to more particular aspects of experience, real and imagined—a shipboard meeting, the Moor not taken, or the unknowable realm of mountaintops. As in all of Koch's work, one hears the music of unconquerable exuberance in stormy conflict with whatever resists it—death, the injustice of power, the vagaries of life in Thailand, China, or Rome.
Thomas Disch has written in the Boston Book Review that "Koch is the most capable technician on the American scene, the brightest wit, and the emeritus most likely to persist into the next millennium . . . His work is full of ribaldry and wit, musicianship, pitch-perfect mimicry of the Great Tradition, and the celebration of pleasure for its own sunlit sake.”
The ebullience and stylistic variety that one has come to expect of this protean poet is everywhere present in this scintillating collection.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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
- A Note About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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