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"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 personal addresses to what has mattered most in his seventy-plus years on the planet, there is a dimension of pathos and joy rare in the poetry of any era." --National Book Award (2000) finalist citation for New Addresses
The three long poems -- "Bel Canto," "Possible World," and "A Memoir" -- in this brilliant successor to "New Addresses are ambitious attempts at rendering the complete story of a life. Taken together they present a dazzling picture of the pleasures and confusions of existence, as well as the pleasures and difficulties of expressing them.
Other poems bring Koch's questioning, lyrical attention to more particular aspects of experience, real and imagined--a shipboard meeting, the Moor not taken, or the unknowable realm of mountaintops. As in all of Koch's work, one hears the music of unconquerable exuberance in stormy conflict with whatever resists it--death, the injustice of power, the vagaries of life in Thailand, China, or Rome.
Thomas Disch has written in the "Boston Book Review that "Koch is the most capable technician on the American scene, the brightest wit, and the emeritus most likely to persist into the next millennium . . . His work is full of ribaldry and wit, musicianship, pitch-perfect mimicry of the Great Tradition, and the celebration of pleasure for its own sunlit sake."
The ebullience and stylistic variety that one has come to expect of this protean poet is everywhere present in this scintillating collection.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Título A Possible World
- Autor Kenneth Koch
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 112
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Knopf Publishing Group
- Fecha de publicación 2004-03-09
- ISBN 9780375710001 / 0375710000
- Peso 0.42 libras (0.19 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.3 x 6.18 x 0.34 pulgadas (23.62 x 15.70 x 0.86 cm)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2002072477
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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