Background
Koch, Kenneth was born on February 27, 1925 in Cincinnati. Son of Stuart J. and Lillian Amy (Loth) Koch.
(This classic guide by the trail-blazer of teaching poetry...)
This classic guide by the trail-blazer of teaching poetry offers ideas and techniques that are useful at all age levels, as well as wonderful poems by his students.
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(In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Kochs six maste...)
In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Kochs six masterly, groundbreaking longer poems, which contain some of the poets most original work, full of exclamation and exaggeration but graced as well with dry wit and sophistication. Together they serve as the companion volume to the highly praised Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch.
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(The activist poet-teacher recounts his experiences, and d...)
The activist poet-teacher recounts his experiences, and describes his methods for, teaching poetry writing to elderly nursing-home residents and includes a selection of his enthusiastic students' poems
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(Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our...)
Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at Fire Island. Koch, in this new book, talks to things important in his life -- to Breath, to World War Two, to Orgasms, to the French Language, to Jewishness, to Psychoanalysis, to Sleep, to his Heart, to Friendship, to High Spirits, to his Twenties, to the Unknown. He makes of all these "new addresses" an exhilarating autobiography of a most surprising and unforeseeable kind. From the Hardcover edition.
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(A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught...)
A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetryby Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and othersand then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.
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Koch, Kenneth was born on February 27, 1925 in Cincinnati. Son of Stuart J. and Lillian Amy (Loth) Koch.
AB, Harvard University, 1948; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1959.
Lecturer, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, 1953-1958; lecturer, Brooklyn College, 1957-1959; assistant professor, Columbia University, 1959-1966; associate professor, Columbia University, 1966-1971; Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, since 1971. Director poetry workshop New School for Society Research, 1958-1966.
(In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Kochs six maste...)
(The activist poet-teacher recounts his experiences, and d...)
(Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our...)
(This classic guide by the trail-blazer of teaching poetry...)
(A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught...)
Member American Academy Arts and Letters.
Married Mary Janice Elwood, June 12, 1954 (deceased 1981). 1 child, Katherine; married Karen Steinbrink, 1994.