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The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch.
by KOCH, Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400044995
- ISBN 13
- 9781400044993
- Seller
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY:: Knopf,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1400044995 . Stated first edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .
Synopsis
Kenneth Koch published many volumes of poetry, most recently A Possible World and New Addresses . His short plays, many of them produced off- and off-off-Broadway, are collected in The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays and One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays. He also wrote several books about poetry, including Wishes, Lies, and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? ; and Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry . His fiction is brought together in Collected Fiction . He was the winner of the Bollingen Prize (1995) and the Bobbitt Library of Congress Poetry Prize (1996), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (1995) and the National Book Award (2000), and winner of the first annual Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award (2001). Kenneth Koch lived with his wife, Karen, in New York City and taught at Columbia University. He died in 2002. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95660
- Title
- The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch.
- Author
- KOCH, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400044995
- ISBN 13
- 9781400044993
- Publisher
- Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- NY:
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 1400044995, Poetry
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