This book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will find it accessible and interesting. The book includes selections of poetry by twenty-three poets, among them Dickinson, Hopkins, Pound, Williams and Eliot, as well as Ginsberg, O'Hara, Baraka and Ashbery. There is also the translated work of such modern European poets such as Lorca, Rilke, Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Mayakowsky.
Author(s): Kenneth Koch; Kate Farrell
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1982
Language: English
Pages: 313
Cover......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Writing Poetry on Your Own......Page 13
From Song of Myself......Page 29
Because I Could Not Stop for Death......Page 41
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo......Page 48
Sensation......Page 56
Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment......Page 66
Yet Dish......Page 74
Childhood......Page 89
A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts......Page 96
It’s Raining......Page 108
The Last Words of My English Grandmother......Page 120
Snake......Page 130
Alba......Page 137
Preludes......Page 144
From A Cloud in Trousers......Page 154
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond......Page 170
Song of Black Cubans......Page 175
The Wanderer......Page 184
A Supermarket in California......Page 194
Sleeping on the Wing......Page 205
The Painter......Page 218
Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen......Page 230
A Poem for Black Hearts......Page 236
Some Practical Suggestions......Page 243
Biographies......Page 257
About the Authors......Page 261
Books by Kenneth Koch......Page 262
Copyright......Page 264
