New Addresses

Name: New Addresses
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ISBN: 9780375709128

ISBN-10: 0375709126

ISBN-13: 9780375709128

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kenneth Koch, Kenneth Koch

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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. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at Fire Island. 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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.23" long x 0.27" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



To "Yes"


To Life


To the Ohio


To My Father's Business


To Piano Lessons


To Stammering


To Kidding Around


To Carelessness


To Some Buckets


To World War Two


To Living in the City


To My Twenties


To Psychoanalysis


To Testosterone


To Driving


To Jewishness


To Consciousness


To Jewishness, Paris, Ambition, Trees, My Heart, and Destiny


To the French Language


To Friendship


To Orgasms


To the Italian Language


To Knowledge, My Skeleton, and an Aesthetic Concept


To Tiredness


To the Island of Hydra


To Marijuana


To My Old Addresses


To Walking, the French Language, Testosterone, Politics, and Duration


To Sleep


To the Roman Forum


To Angelic Circumstances


To Experience


To Life, Breath, and Experience


To Fame


To My Fifties


To My Heart as I Go Along


To My Heart at the Close of Day


To Duration


To Scrimping


To Insults


To High Spirits


To Competitiveness


To the Unknown


To One Thing after Another


To the Past


To Destiny


To Some Abstract Paintings


To Various Persons Talked to All at Once


To Breath


To Old Age