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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch
“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las
diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”
11 dic 2005
What is your favorite Kenneth Koch poem? Respond in comments. if you don't like Kenneth Koch get out of here. I mean that very seriously.
I like the boiling water poem and I think there's an anxiety poem that's kind of similar. Both are longish, but not booklength longish. Very funny. My other favorite is When the Sun Tries to Go On, which I always misremember as When the Sun Refuses to Go Down.
"Cecilia" is my favourite Koch poem - I think it's part of a larger work called "Collected Poems" or "Collected Proses." In fact, I like Koch the miniaturist best of all. He perfected the one-line poem as a genre.
Witty and charming, while remaining magnetically mysterious, elusive and opaque, one of my very favorite book-length poems is *When The Sun Tries To Go On.* It remains a marvel of its type for its admirable inexhaustibility and mock-epic scale.
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Thank You has been with me since I first read it forty-five or so years ago. I love it!
I like the boiling water poem and I think there's an anxiety poem that's kind of similar. Both are longish, but not booklength longish. Very funny. My other favorite is When the Sun Tries to Go On, which I always misremember as When the Sun Refuses to Go Down.
I guess that's three favorites.
"Variations on a Theme by WCW" and "One Train May Hide Another."
Does it count that _Wishes, Lies, and Dreams_ was seminal? _Rose, Where Did You Get That Red_ only slightly less so.
Or your favorite book...
Hi Jonathan,
I like
_When the Sun Tries to Go On_
_Impressions of Africa_
and I am assigning a new favorite _Making Your Own Days_ for a class next semester.
-kaplan
"The Circus" [1975].
Jordan has the same favorite as I do.
"Cecilia" is my favourite Koch poem - I think it's part of a larger work called "Collected Poems" or "Collected Proses." In fact, I like Koch the miniaturist best of all. He perfected the one-line poem as a genre.
"Some general instructions", "Thank you" and "Variations on a theme..."
Witty and charming, while remaining magnetically mysterious, elusive and opaque,
one of my very favorite book-length poems is
*When The Sun Tries To Go On.* It remains a marvel of its type for its admirable inexhaustibility and mock-epic scale.
"Locks."
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