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Kenneth Koch Making Your Own Days (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Making Your Own Days : the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
- Publication Name
- Making Your Own Days
- Title
- Making Your Own Days
- Subtitle
- The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0684824388
- EAN
- 9780684824383
- ISBN
- 9780684824383
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
- Release Date
- 08/04/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Topic
- Comparative Literature, General, Poetry, Essays
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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InMaking Your Own Days,celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no onehadwritten about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. Treating poetry not as a special use of language but, in fact, as a separate language -- unlike the one used in prose and conversation -- Koch is able to clarify the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens in a reader's mind and feelings while reading a poem.Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works: lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation -- by poets past and present from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery. Each selection is accompanied by an illuminating explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text.In this book, Kenneth Koch's genius for making poetry clear and for bringing out its real pleasures is everywhere apparent.
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Publisher
Touchstone
ISBN-10
0684824388
ISBN-13
9780684824383
eBay Product ID (ePID)
698994
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making Your Own Days : the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, General, Poetry, Essays
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1042
Reviews
Ned RoremKoch is that rare phenomenon, the poet who can write prose -- prose that is necessary and lucid. In his book, he offers a new and healthy dimension to the life of virtually everyone., Michael Dirda The Washington Post Book World Kenneth Koch is one of our finest living poets.... Making Your Own Days is...exhilarating., Ned Rorem A person in love is torn between needing to keep his enthusiasm secret and wanting to share it with the world. Kenneth Koch in his new book strikes the ideal compromise. How generous he is with his patient intelligence, and how original with his crucial perception! Like all real artists, he shows us what we did not know we knew. He is that rare phenomenon, the poet who can write prose -- prose that is necessary and lucid. In his book, he offers a new and healthy dimension to the life of virtually everyone., David LehmanAmerican Poetry ReviewA poet of the highest originality....[Koch] has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry., Michael DirdaThe Washington Post Book WorldKenneth Koch is one of our finest living poets....Making Your Own Daysis...exhilarating., David Lehman American Poetry Review A poet of the highest originality....[Koch] has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry., Frank Kermode I would recommend Koch's way of teaching poetry above all others. His book is informative, witty, amd surprising. It's also authoritative. I hope it has the great success it deserves; it is a precious defense of poetry., Michael DirdaThe Washington Post Book WorldKenneth Koch is one of our finest living poets....Making Your Own Days is...exhilarating., Frank Kermode I would recommend Koch's way of teaching poetry above all others. His book is informative, witty, and surprising. It's also authoritative...it is a precious defense of poetry., Frank KermodeI would recommend Koch's way of teaching poetry above all others. His book is informative, witty, and surprising. It's also authoritative...it is a precious defense of poetry., Ned Rorem Koch is that rare phenomenon, the poet who can write prose -- prose that is necessary and lucid. In his book, he offers a new and healthy dimension to the life of virtually everyone.
Table of Content
Contents A Brief Preface Part I The Language of Poetry 1. The Two Languages 2. Music Repetition and RhythmLine DivisionMeterNon-Metrical PoetryRhymeNon-Rhyming and Irregularly Rhyming PoetryStanzas and Poetic Forms 3. The Inclinations of the Poetry Language ComparisonsPersonification and ApostropheLiesA Few Other Inclinations 4. The Poetry Base Part II Writing and Reading Poetry 1. Inspiration 2. Writing 3. Reading Long PoemsDramatic PoetryPoetry in Other Languages and in Translation Part III An Anthology of Poems Index Permissions
Copyright Date
1999
Dewey Decimal
809.1
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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