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On the Edge

Collected Long Poems

By Kenneth Koch

By Kenneth Koch

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Category: Poetry

Ebook $14.99

Jul 25, 2012 | ISBN 9780307558770

On the Edge by Kenneth Koch
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About On the Edge

In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Koch’s six masterly, groundbreaking longer poems, which contain some of the poet’s most original work, full of exclamation and exaggeration but graced as well with dry wit and sophistication. Together they serve as the companion volume to the highly praised Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch.

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About Kenneth Koch

KENNETH KOCH has published many volumes of poetry, including New Addresses, Straits and One Train. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1995, in 1996 he received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress, and he received… More about Kenneth Koch

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Category: Poetry

Ebook | $14.99
Published by Knopf
Jul 25, 2012 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780307558770
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“No American poet over the last half-century wrote with as much antic and anarchic gusto as Kenneth Koch: In the grand tradition of fast-talking funnymen from Aristophanes to Groucho, his boisterous brand of comedy was a natural byproduct of his exuberant audacity. Who says serious poetry has to be solemn?” —The Boston Globe

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