About this title: Bollingen Prize-winning poet Kenneth Koch writes entertainingly about both the joy of creating poetry and reading the work of others. The book includes a highly personal anthology, with poems by such varied authors as Homer and Mayakowsky.
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Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780684839929ISBN:068483992X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very good hardcover copy, lightly used. The binding is solid and square. The covering of black cloth and light gray paper shows only very mild wear. There is an owner's signature in front, but the text of the book is clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is also very good, though lightly rubbed on the back. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780684839929ISBN:068483992X
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Marker stripe bottom edge. Jacket edges worn. First printing. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684824383ISBN:0684824388
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very Good Copy. Trade paperback. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Spine is square with creasing and wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780684839929ISBN:068483992X
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book. Black lettering on the yellow dust jacket spine with a yellow and illustrated cover. The pleasures of reading and writing poetry. 317 pages. Light dust jacket wear. Tight binding. Fine/Very Good condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Date Published: 1999-04-08
ISBN-13:9780684824383ISBN:0684824388
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684824383ISBN:0684824388
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN-13:9780684839929ISBN:068483992X
Description: Fine. 068483992X First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As New. Unread. NOT marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. NOT faded. NOT a b/c. NOT an XL. All of our dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective book jacket covers. read more
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"I like Kenneth Koch. And he makes me want to read more poetry. Also: this book is pure gold for teaching undergraduates about writing poems. Big ideas stated clearly and with a sense of humor. I've never been so excited to read sections of Wordsworth! (By the way, I wish that was my last name. Peter Wordsworth. That's who I want to be)."
"I read the library copy but I'll probably buy my own. Kenneth Koch has been a long-time favorite of mine in the poetry teaching department - I love the attention he pays to the music of poetry, as well as his erudition, his intelligence and his straightforward style. A treasure reference book."
"Seeing as poets are the priests of the invisible, their houses of worship are too. But Koch pours a bit sweet bag of critical sugar on top of it so we non-poets can at least see the outlines."
"Koch talks a little too much here, kind of obscuring the power of what he's saying by going on about rhyme schemes and Dante, but he has tons of good solid ideas, so I'll just excerpt him and forget about hard feelings."
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