A Possible World

by Kenneth Koch

Book Overview

"For the last thirty years or more, Kenneth Koch has been writing the most exuberant poems in America. In an arena where such good spirits are rare, he has become a national treasure. In his book of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375414924
• ISBN13: 9780375414923
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious and brilliant

This book contains the hilarious poem "Possible World," a sort of parody of Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés," along with a brilliant memoir and several delightful shorter poems. "The Moor not taken" is also very funny. Buy it together with "Sun Out" to see the very early and the very late Koch side by side.

A Brilliant Follow-up

Koch has followed up his tremendous last collection "New Addresses" with this brilliant collection in which we see the full of range of the powers that made him one of the giants of American poetry - Bell Canto, in Koch's oft-used Ottava Rima, further solidifies his place as a great master of the form.