One Train
by Kenneth Koch
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Intensely serious beneath a surface of lightness and wit, Kenneth Koch's poems maintain power, Denis Donoghue wrote, by rarely choosing to exert it. Koch's virtuosity - he has written many plays, an extravagant novel (The Red Robins), and short stories (Hotel Lambosa), and has done numerous collaborations with painters - seems part of a continuing and energetic attempt to write (in the words of Ariosto) things never said in prose before or in verse. Almost every poem is a new kind of poem, a show more new flight - in this volume, for example, the theme and variations of One Train May Hide Another, the Poems by Ships at Sea, the post-Apollinairean couplets of A Time Zone, the Chinese poetry-influenced quatrains of The First Step, and the hundred or so brief poems that together make up the poem On Aesthetics. show lessTags
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Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Koch has been a faculty member at Columbia since 1959 and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Koch has written works of fiction, poetry, essays and plays as well as Wishes, Lies show more and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red, which are books on teaching poetry. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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