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	Kenneth Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Koch was born Jay Kenneth Koch in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		Koch died from a year-long battle with leukemia in 2002.
		Koch described their poems as “Written by the men with their eyes on the myth/ And the missus and the midterms…” Indeed, it could be said that Koch, a mix of comedy and the ironic, attacked the idea that poetry should be in any way stale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Koch (1398 words)

	Kenneth Koch's poetry took readers on a thrill ride - The Boston Globe
		Koch lived on the third story of a building next to the El at Third Avenue where ``one of...
		Koch lived on the third story of a building next to the El at Third Avenue where ``one of Kenneth's distractions was to don a rubber gorilla mask and gaze out his window at the passing trains."
		Certainly, the improvisatory surprises kept coming, and Koch quickened the poems with his technical virtuosity; he was always able to inhabit forms as varied as the stanzas of Byron's ``Don Juan," Elizabethan ``fourteeners," or Whitmanian catalogs.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/10/11/kenneth_kochs_poetry_took_readers_on_a_thrill_ride (585 words)

	Columbia College Today
		In one of his last “seasons on earth,” Kenneth Koch went to the Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to undergo radical treatment for the leukemia that had stricken him in the summer of 2001.
		That is one of the things that Koch — who died on July 6, succumbing to the leukemia he had fought for a year — had figured out for himself and his students long ago: Anger is useless, but you can transmute it into something beautiful or charming or funny or true.
		Koch’s poetry sometimes commences in parody or satire and ends nevertheless in a sublime peak of wonderment.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/nov02/nov02_cover_koch.php (872 words)

	An Interview With Kenneth Koch by David Kennedy
		Kenneth Koch was unfailingly helpful and courteous throughout despite being clearly exhausted after along car journey from Ipswich where he had opened the exhibition 'Kenne th Koch: Collaborations with Artists' curated by latter-day New York poet Paul Violi.
		Kenneth Koch: There was a form of literature that I was interested in immediately, nursery rhymes and children's stories.
		Kenneth Koch: Well, it's not that I was indifferent ot the horrors of war because that's what inspired the poem to a large extent but I couldn't write about them.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/koch.html (5102 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Kenneth Koch
		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.
		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.
		"Kenneth Koch, a unique poet, has continued to explain his 'own idea of what made sense,' writing poems for forty years, without ceasing to be human and funny, without ever forgetting what poetry is. The result, for the reader, is an unusual delight...
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/koch (543 words)

	CityBeat: An Interview with Kenneth Koch (2001-05-17)
		Koch's thirst for excitement and hatred of anything dull began early on in his life as a youngster growing up in Cincinnati during the 1940s.
		In his most recent published volume, New Addresses, Koch addresses the numerous muses that have affected his life and career, one of which is the Ohio River, the earthy body that separated the staid normalcy of Cincinnati from the carnivalesque revelry of Kentucky.
		Kenneth Koch: After I graduated from Harvard and moved down to New York, I had the great good chance to find a room in a building on Third Avenue, also the building of Jane Freilicher, the painter.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-05-17/books.shtml (1498 words)

	A Possible World: Poems by Kenneth Koch
		When Kenneth Koch died in July, he was eulogized as a principal member of the New York School of poetry and as an innovative teacher of poetry writing.
		Although Koch never achieved the international stature of his friends, he was a prolific author, writing eight volumes of prose, six collections of plays and more than 20 books of poetry.
		In the course of his writing life, Koch had supporters and detractors, and this collection is unlikely to change many minds.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20021201koch1201fnp5.asp (461 words)

	Koch, Kenneth - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KOCH, KENNETH [Koch, Kenneth] (Kenneth Jay Koch), 1925-2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b.
		Profile: Kenneth Koch dies at the age of 77
		Koch gift lifts Tallgrass preserve: The $1 million donation will help preserve the 11,000-acre tallgrass prairie preserve.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-koch-k1en.html (425 words)

	David Lehman: Dr. Fun -- On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 by Kenneth Koch / One Train by Kenneth ...
		Kenneth Koch's poetry remains an underrated treasure, arousing discipleship and high ardor wherever the spirit of the New York school is strong and ignored wherever not.
		Koch, our funniest poet, has had the misfortune to be a protean comic genius at a moment when the lyric poem is the be-all and end-all of verse and is mistakenly held to be incompatible with the spirit of comedy.
		Where a poet's political motives are strong--as in the case of Brecht or, in a different way, Pound--the critic is invited, even urged, to consider the poems in the light of their hypothetical or actual consequences as political documents.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199511/ai_n8712028 (890 words)

	Jacket 15 - David Shapiro - A Conversation with Kenneth Koch
		Koch: I began to write poetry when I was five, and I remember the pleasure I got from writing certain poems when I was five; it was similar to the pleasure I get from writing poems now.
		Koch, Ashbery, and O’Hara may be regarded as innovators in language on the same scale as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline in painting, although the critical literature had tended to ignore or degrade these innovations in a mostly arbitrary fashion.
		Koch: ‘The Construction of Boston’ was a play that I did with Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Robert Rauschenberg.
	jacketmagazine.com /15/koch-shapiro.html (3049 words)

	1966 Bobbitt Poetry Prize Awarded to Kenneth Koch
		Koch's collections of poetry include Seasons on Earth (1987), On the Edge (1986), Days and Nights (1982), The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979), The Art of Love (1975), The Pleasures of Peace (1969), When the Sun Tries to Go On (1969), and Thank You and Other Poems (1962).
		Koch earned his A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1948, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1953 and 1959 from Columbia University.
		The jury described Kenneth Koch as "a man with a distinguished record and with a distinguished book," "a communal poet and a good citizen." His Bobbitt Prize-winning book, One Train, displays "a poignant wit" and is consistent in its tone, with a unity often sought but not always achieved by poets in their collected work.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1996/96-134.html (705 words)

	'Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry' by Kenneth Koch
		Kenneth Koch, the author of 19 collections of poetry, has truly offered a welcoming, accessible path to the pleasures of the art in his latest book.
		Koch takes us on a slow, full-bodied journey through poetry land by speaking of poetry as a “language within a language,” then leading us through interesting discussions of meter, line and other poetic devices.
		Koch sets a strong example for Pinsky in terms of how to invite the reader in to the world of poetry.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990411review220.asp (787 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch by Kenneth Koch
		Kenneth Koch has been called “one of our greatest poets” by John Ashbery, and “a national treasure” in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation.
		Here is Koch’s early work: love poems like “The Circus” and “To Marina” and such well-remembered comic masterpieces as “Fresh Air,” “Some General Instructions,” and “The Boiling Water” (“A serious moment for the water is when it boils”).
		Kenneth Koch lived with his wife, Karen, in New York City and taught at Columbia University.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400044993 (459 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Kenneth Koch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Originating at Harvard, where Koch met fellow students Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, the New York School derived much of its inspiration from the works of action painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Larry Rivers, whom the poets met in the 1950s after settling in New York City.
		Koch wrote the libretto for composer Marcello Panni's The Banquet, which premiered in Bremen in June 1998, and his collaborations with painters have been the subject of exhibitions at the Ipswich Museum in England and the De Nagy Gallery in New York.
		Kenneth Koch lived in New York City, where he was professor of English at Columbia University.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/75 (608 words)

	Amazon.fr : New Addresses: Poems: Livres en anglais: Kenneth Koch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blending nuanced echoes of O'Hara, Stevens and Max Jacob, Koch has managed to create a form and inflection that takes on the variousness of the poet's life with startling movement and without the least bit of decaying bathos, despite the naturally reflective tone of some of the poems (such as "To Old Age").
		For Koch, one mechanism of getting things said directly seems to be in keeping his poems short (with less space for his trademark antics).
		Yet Koch's gimmick-prone methodology is still very much in evidence: the "addresses" of the title are literal, the speaker accusing, praising, or querying abstract concepts, emotions, bits of himself, and his past.
	www.amazon.fr /New-Addresses-Poems-Kenneth-Koch/dp/0375410279 (512 words)

	Amazon.fr : Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch: Livres en anglais: Kenneth Koch,Jordan Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While Koch's writing here is full of startling images and imaginative turns, it never really comes together—even if read for a kind of disjunctive expressism above all else—but the book gives further dimension to a writer whose place in American letters remains uncertain.
		"As a teenager and aspiring writer I always told myself I wanted to be to novel-writing what Kenneth Koch was to poetry: the funniest serious writer and the happiest sad writer going, an experimenter with forms who was so intoxicatingly personal and insouciant that you’d never balk at his radicalism.
		Collected here for the first time, Kenneth Koch’s fiction creates an optimistic and comic world in which the pursuit of happiness is taken very seriously.
	www.amazon.fr /Collected-Fiction-Kenneth-Koch/dp/1566891760 (648 words)

	Dr. Fun
		Gin?/...O Kenneth Koch!" Koch's memories of his writing methods at the time, which he described with typical exuberance in a poem of his own, confirm O'Hara's impression that he drew inspiration from nothing less than the entire world.
		At the time of all this rampant delight, Koch had just returned to New York City from a Fulbright year in Paris, joining O'Hara and their friends John Ashbery and James Schuyler in the merry band that would eventually be known as the New York School of poets.
		Koch's attempts to render this multiplicity of meaning in straight English, and thereby get to the essential nature of human existence, yielded some rather odd products over the next few years.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060123/rehak (1077 words)

	More info about the poet: Kenneth Koch - references bibliography
		Kenneth Koch As charming as old people are, one doesn't want to have a 75-year-old baby.
		Kenneth Koch: After I graduated from Harvard and moved down to New York, I had the great good...
		Koch, Kenneth (Kenneth Jay Koch), 1925–2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b.
	www.poemhunter.com /kenneth-koch/resources/poet-12369/page-1 (680 words)

	Kenneth Koch Memorial
		Kenneth Koch, a poet of the New York School whose work combined the sardonic wit of a borscht-belt comic, the erotic whimsy of a Surrealist painter and the gritty wisdom of a scared young soldier, died yesterday (July 6, 2002) after a long battle with leukemia at his home in Manhattan.
		Kenneth Koch is considered by many to be the godfather of the loosely termed "poets-in-schools movement".
		The following Kenneth Koch poem appears in New Addresses, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2001.
	poetrycenter.org /involved/news/koch.html (267 words)

	Paradiso Summary & Essays - Kenneth Koch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Koch’s time spent in various countries—including Italy, where he married his first wife—plays an important role in A Possible World.
		It may even be the impetus for the title of this poem, which shares its name with an older work of the same name, written in the fourteenth century by Italian classical poet Dante Alighieri.
		It is also likely that Koch’s personal life— especially the love he felt for each of his wives— is what helps his speaker make the leap from disillusionment to possible happiness once he understands the true meaning of paradise.
	www.enotes.com /paradiso/45602 (238 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		Much of the work of the poet Kenneth Koch can be seen as courting greatness in art through lightness—what David Lehman calls "levity in defiance of gravity." From early in his writing life, Koch realized that without lightness, unchecked heaviness can make a thunderous tonnage of art.
		Koch was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry from the Yale University Library in 1995, and the following year he won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbit National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
		Kenneth Koch died at his home in Manhattan, after a long struggle with leukemia, on July 6, 2002.
	www.pw.org /mag/0209/young.htm (1417 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kenneth Koch (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Kenneth Koch (Kenneth Jay Koch)[kOk] Pronunciation Key, 1925–2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b.
		After studying at Harvard and Columbia he was associated with the Artist's Theatre and Locus Solus magazine.
		Combining modernism, lyricism, and humor, Koch's "antisymbolic" poetic style is characterized by witty juxtapositions and dislocations of words.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Koch-Ken.html (275 words)

	village voice > books > The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch by Carla Blumenkranz
		Kenneth Koch taught his Columbia students how to write verse by copying everyone else's: Make up the first scene of Hamlet without actually reading Hamlet; turn a Wordsworth poem into Wallace Stevens.
		Koch (who died in 2002) was known as a joker, a teacher, and most of all, a core member of the New York School of poets.
		Koch hammered out, on a daily basis, a couple dozen pages; the New York Public Library archives hold more boxes of his writing than by any other author, according to Koch's editor and assistant Jordan Davis.
	villagevoice.com /books/0552,blumenkranz,71308,10.html (882 words)

	Online NewsHour: Poet Kenneth Koch. -- November 28, 1996
		A conversation with Kenneth Koch, winner of this year's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.
		KENNETH KOCH: Well, it was--I've always found it a great pleasure to collaborate with other poets and also with painters, which I've done too, but it's like having the muse in the room with you.
		KENNETH KOCH: Oh, Picasso said that you shouldn't be your own connoisseur.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/november96/koch_11-28.html (1190 words)

	Amazon.com: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch: Books: Kenneth Koch,Jordan Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Koch's previously uncollected work includes a warm-hearted parody of a children's adventure narrative and a story detailing the mysteries uncovered by an obsessive postcard detective.
		Together, the work of Kenneth Koch opens up a wonderful world-one where the pursuit of happiness is taken very seriously indeed.
		Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati and served in the South Pacific during World War II.
	www.amazon.com /Collected-Fiction-Kenneth-Koch/dp/1566891760 (1102 words)

	Amazon.com: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch: Books: Kenneth Koch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kenneth Koch, on the contrary, could simply not stop producing poetry.
		Koch (1925-2002) brought a distinctive elan, irreverence, and jazziness to poetry, writing poems that run on alternating currents, so that they are at once ebullient and incisive, canny and reflective, surreal and realistic, hilarious and philosophical, lyrical and essayistic.
		Grouped with John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara in the New York school, Koch wrote inventive, funny, candid, and poignant poetry for five decades, filling 10 collections that are now gathered together here in one substantial volume perfect for consolidating collections or correcting omissions.
	www.amazon.com /Collected-Poems-Kenneth-Koch/dp/1400044995 (1163 words)

	[minstrels] Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams -- Kenneth Koch
		Koch has the tone down perfectly - it is tempting to say that he dislikes Imagism, and is trying to skewer it for its [perceived] pretentiousness, but I feel he is laughing more with than at the genre (see his comments about seriousness in the notes).
		Koch's comic voice swung effortlessly from the trivial to the fantastic.
		The intention of my poetry is--I mean, I don't intend for my poetry to be mainly funny or satirical, but it seems to me that high spirits and sort of a comic view are part of being serious.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/278.html (770 words)

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