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Kenneth Koch's lively, original, and acclaimed book of nine plays--some surrealist, some data, all readable and funny--are now available in a paperback edition. Koch has received many honors for his work, including most recently the Bollingen Prize for his poetry. ... Read more

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Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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wonderful!
I wanted to make sure to review this book, as I have such wonderful memories of this book as a child. I memorized so many of them, and fell in love with such great poets. The art is also really interesting and a great mix. I love that these are very good poems for kids to enjoy, but they are not simple or all sing songy. there are all sorts of poems, and they are ones I still remember and love today. I couldn't praise this book enough! it is just a great collection.

Gorgeous words, gorgeous pictures
If you have one book of poetry, or one book of art reproductions, for your family (or for yourself at any age), this may be it. All of the poems are short and vivid, and the images are stunning, as befits a book issued by a museum. The choice of poetry may not be everyone's cup of tea, as the New York School poets are rather over-represented and there are a lot of poems in translation that include good images but unfortunately sound a little clumsy. But year after year, I find new things to delight in here.

I disagree with the tag "children's poetry" for this book. This is not kiddy poetry, like Shel Silverstein's, but real poetry that children can appreciate.

Beautiful
Poetry.Could be used for any age level.

Summary
This book is a collection of art work that accompanies more than a hundred poems by an array of writers, including Nash, Dickinson, Tennyson, Carroll, ethnic poems, and many by people I don't know.

Illustrations
The illustrations are photographs of art work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Application
This book would be great to read while waiting in line.We could look at Egyptian art page, for example, and I could ask students what they think about the people who created these sculptures?Who are these people today?How old do you think the child in this painting?Why?What kind of hairdo would the child have today?What kind of job do you think this woman had?I could have the students look for details in pictures.What happened to the rest of this sculpture?

very good book for kids
As a father, poet and art fan, I think this book makes a brilliant gift for artistically inclined children. The art graphics and choices are excellent. The poems are excellent. Most importantly, the book doesn't condescend to intuitive children. Koch understands that kids don't crave excessively sentimental hooey. They like to be fascinated. This is the kind of book that, over time, will increase a child's creativity.

A charming anthology
This is a book of poetry and art.The poems are good for adults as well as children (even though this is called anthology for "young people").They are arranged loosely by theme and are from different time periods.

There are also many pictures throughout the book.These are color and are reproductions of art from different time periods and cultures.The pictures and poems are arranged to fill each page.This makes for a charming book to browse.

This is not an essential book for a family library.It is a nice edition and has a good collection of poems for all ages displayed attractively with pictures.Depending on what you already have and how much space you have this might be a nice edition for you. ... Read more

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A Loving Look at Writing Poetry with Children
I read this bookthe first time when I borrowed it from a friend about twenty years ago, and have checked it out from the library several times to reread it.Recently I decided to purchase a copy as this is a truly inspirational book for anyone that teaches writing to children.The beginning part of the book in which Kenneth Koch describes his experiences working with students in New York City Schools though written about forty years ago seems relevant and timeless.I especially enjoy the poems written by students.It's always wonderful to be able to share poetry that actual children have written.It shows students that they too can be authors, writing exceptional poetry is not just the province of the likes of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. ... Read more

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The Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly without Pictures is a collection of poetry comics written, illustrated, and lettered by Kenneth Koch, the Bollingen-Prize winning poet. Carrying the wit and tenderness of his poems into a genre which, if he did not invent, he certainly made new, The Art of the Possible includes puzzle pages, guides to different kinds of guys, gals, onions, and Easter, not to mention observations on eating snails in Wales or looking for a locker in Cuernavaca. Anton Chekov, Willem de Kooning, a Russian Socrates, Gabonese leader Omar Bongo, and the Dead White Man all make appearances. Both fulfillment of a childhood wish and the product of fifty years’ experience in the worlds of literature and art, The Art of the Possible is a unique book by one of America’s best-loved poets. ... Read more

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With new interest in poetry as a performative art, and with prewar experiments much in mind, the young poets of postwar America infused the stage with the rhythms and shocks of their poetry. These energies manifested themselves all at once, and through the decades have continued to grow and mutate, innovating a form of writing that defies boundaries of genre. THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1985 documents the emergence, growth, and varied fortunes of the form over decades of American literary history, with a focus on key regional movements. The largest and most comprehensive anthology of its kind yet assembled, the volume collects classics, long out of print rarities and texts from unpublished manuscripts. Copiously annotated, it will be an indispensable reference for students of postwar American poetry and avant garde theater. Included are works by Jack Spicer, John Ashbery, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Hannah Weiner, Barbara Guest, Sonia Sanchez, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Carla Harryman, Charles Bernstein, Leslie Scalapino, Kathy Acker, and many others. A unique feature of the book is its editors' notes even on works omitted but falling within the anthology's purview, including Pedro Pietri's The Masses Are Asses and Jessica Hagedorn's Tenement Lover. Erudite yet highly readable, the plays and prefatory matter offer a highly entertaining glimpse of the ways in which poets have used the theater to widen their audience, develop new techniques, or negotiate their aesthetic community's precepts and desires. In the process, some of the most mature and progressive work within and about the theater was produced, and is at last gathered in one place. ... Read more

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The linguistic playfulness and imagistic sensibilities that typify the New York School Poets are revealed in the first definitive collection in twenty-five years of the late poet's work. Original. ... Read more

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not to forget
I first encountered Ceravolo almost 6 years ago, after first diving into Celan. The odd conjunction proved more fruitful than one might think. Underneath the green lake's awake surface, tense with linguistic wit and ingenuity (so characteristic of the New York School--for better or worse) is a dark depth that resonates long after the verbal fireworks are ashen. How a genuine and humane sorrow comes draped in such life-tuned language is a marvel no budding poet should miss, and for the poet in full bloom, Ceravolo's voice, like wind, will pollinate from afar. What plants spring up in spring are not narcissus around the lake--this lake, Ceravolo's lake, will be surrounded by flowers that are unique, are his own. ... Read more

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Chapters: Fredric Brown, Steven Heller, Nikki Giovanni, Tim Lucas, James W. Faulkner, Kenneth Koch, Daniel Carter Beard, Cleveland Abbe, Karen Marie Moning, William Haines Lytle, Robert Lowry, Steve Libbey, Steve Kipner, Michael Cunningham, Kay Lahusen, Alice Cary, Samuel Fenton Cary, Phoebe Cary, Gail Collins, William Holmes Mcguffey, John Filson, Sidney M. Goldin, Geoffrey Girard, Daniel Drake, Karen Ackerman, Thomas Berger, Elizabeth Drew, Shari Goldhagen, Edward Deering Mansfield, Helen Hooven Santmyer, Mallori Mcneal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 133. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steven Heller (born 1950) is an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography, and many subjects related to graphic design. He has published more than eighty titles and written articles for magazines including Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., Oxymoron, Mother Jones, The New York Times Book Review, Print, Speak, and U ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sylvia Plath, Frederick Buechner, James Agee, James Merrill, Donald Hall, Kenneth Koch, Katha Pollitt, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Glascock Prize, Winfield Townley Scott. Excerpt:Donald Hall Donald Hall (born 20 September 1928) is an American poet . He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (commonly known as the Poet Laureate of the United States) in 2006. Biography Early years Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut , the only child of Donald Andrew Hall, a businessman, and Lucy Wells. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy , then earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1951 and a B.Litt, from Oxford in 1953. Hall received an honorary PhD, Lit. from Bates College in 1991. Hall began writing even before reaching his teens, beginning with poems and short stories, and then moving on to novels and dramatic verse. Hall continued to write throughout his prep school years at Exeter, and, while still only sixteen years old, attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference , where he made his first acquaintance with the poet Robert Frost . That same year, he published his first work. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Hall served on the editorial board of The Harvard Advocate , and got to know a number of people who, like him, were poised with significant ambitions in the literary world, amongst them John Ashbery , Robert Bly , Kenneth Koch , Frank O'Hara , and Adrienne Rich , whom he dated briefly.During his senior year, he won the Glascock Prize that Koch had won 3 years earlier. After leaving Harvard, Hall went to Oxford for two years, to study for the B.Litt. He was editor of the magazine Oxford Poetry , as literary editor of Isis, as editor of New Poems, and as poetry editor of The Paris Review . At the end of his first Ox... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Ashbery, Frank O'hara, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joseph Ceravolo, Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, Lunch Poems, Larry Fagin, Kenward Elmslie, Max Blagg, Sam Abrams. Excerpt:Alice Notley (born 8 November 1945) is an American poet . She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California . She received a B.A from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in the Chicago poetry scene and with whom she had two sons. In the early 70s she became rooted in New York 's Lower East Side , where she was an important force from 1976 through 1992. After Berrigan died in 1983, Notley raised their two sons in New York's East Village by herself for several years while continuing to develop her poetry. In 1992 she moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet Douglas Oliver (1937-2000). She lives in Paris currently, making several trips to the United States each year to give readings and teach writing classes. Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging poets at work today. Fiercely independent, she has never tried to be anything other than a poet, and all of her ancillary activities have been directed to that end. She is the author of over twenty books of poetry, and also the author of a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After . Alice Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize , and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. In the spring of 2001, she received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America 's Shelley Memorial Award . She edited and wrote a new introduction to ... ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Kenneth Koch, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 5923 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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