Making Your Own Days
The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
$47.92
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
12 May 1999
Summary
From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.
Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those who read it and for those who write it—as well as for those who would like to read and write it better. By treating poetry not as a special use of language but as a distinc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684824383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684824388 |
| Author: | Kenneth Koch |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Pocket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 1999 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
Ned RoremKoch is that rare phenomenon, the poet who can write prose – prose that is necessary and lucid. In his book, he offers a new and healthy dimension to the life of virtually everyone.
Michael Dirda The Washington Post Book World Kenneth Koch is one of our finest living poets….Making Your Own Days is…exhilarating.
David Lehman American Poetry Review A poet of the highest originality….[Koch] has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry.
Frank Kermode I would recommend Koch’s way of teaching poetry above all others. His book is informative, witty, and surprising. It’s also authoritative…it is a precious defense of poetry.
Ned Rorem Koch is that rare phenomenon, the poet who can write prose – prose that is necessary and lucid. In his book, he offers a new and healthy dimension to the life of virtually everyone.
Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch is the author of many books of poetry, most recently Straits, and won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1994. He has also published fiction and plays, as well as books on the teaching of poetry: Wishes, Lies and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody. He lives in New York City, where he is professor of English at Columbia University.
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