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Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002, author.

On the great Atlantic rainway : selected poems, 1950-1988 / Kenneth Koch.

First edition.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm

In this new selection of the poetry of Kenneth Koch - "one of our greatest poets" (John Ashbery) - Koch's brilliance, aesthetic daring, and virtuosity are everywhere apparent. Included here are selections from his book-length narrative poems, Ko and The Duplications, and from his dazzlingly incomprehensible (by ordinary means), fractured epic When the Sun Tries to Go On; poetic plays such as Pericles, Guinivere, Bertha, and six of his One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays; "instructional" poems - from The Art of Love - in which an old genre is splendidly revived; lyric, satiric, and sympathetic poems on the state of the arts - "Fresh Air" and "The Artist"; radically inventive love poems - "West Wind," "To Marina," "With Janice"; and the memorable autobiographical poems "On the Edge" and "Seasons of the Earth."

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.

Also issued online.

On the Great Atlantic Rainway -- The Bricks -- Ma Provence -- The Brassiere Factory -- Summery Weather -- Sun Out -- Your Fun is a Snob -- Where Am I Kenneth? -- Pericles -- From When the Sun Tries to Go On -- Guinevere -- En L'an Trentiesme De Mon Eage -- Desire for Spring -- To You -- In Love with You -- West Wind -- Spring -- Aus Einer Kindheit -- Farm's Thoughts -- Geography -- The Circus -- Collected Poems -- Pregnancy -- Hearing -- The Artist -- Fresh Air -- Permanently -- Down at the Docks -- You Were Wearing -- Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams -- From Ko (Canto One) -- The Railway Stationery -- Thank You -- Lunch -- The Departure from Hydra -- Bertha -- Poem -- Sleeping with Women -- The Pleasures of Peace -- Equal to You -- From the Duplications.

The Circus (II) -- The Magic of Numbers -- Alive for an Instant -- Some General Instructions -- The Art of Poetry -- From the Art of Love -- The Boiling Water -- Our Hearts -- To Marina -- The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 -- From the Red Robins -- Girl and Baby Florist Sidewalk Pram Nineteen Seventy Something -- The Simplicity of the Unknown Past -- From the Green Step -- With Janice -- Days and Nights -- In Bed -- From Impressions of Africa -- On the Edge -- Six Avant-Garde Plays -- Seasons on Earth.

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