Contents
A Brief Preface
Part I The Language of Poetry
1. The Two Languages
2. MusicRepetition and RhythmLine DivisionMeterNon-Metrical
PoetryRhymeNon-Rhyming and Irregularly Rhyming PoetryStanzas and
Poetic Forms3. The Inclinations of the Poetry
LanguageComparisonsPersonification and ApostropheLiesA Few Other
Inclinations4. 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
Kenneth Koch is the author of many books of poetry, most recently Straits, and won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1994. He has also published fiction and plays, as well as books on the teaching of poetry: Wishes, Lies and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody. He lives in New York City, where he is professor of English at Columbia University.
Michael Dirda The Washington Post Book World Kenneth Koch is one of
our finest living poets....Making Your Own Days
is...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, 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.
Michael Dirda The Washington Post Book World Kenneth Koch is
one of our finest living poets....Making Your Own Days
is...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, 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.
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