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Kenneth Koch
(1925 - 2002 / Ohio / United States)
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8 poems of Kenneth Koch
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''"Something there is that doesn't hump a sump,"
He said; and through his head she saw a cloud
That seemed to twinkle.''
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Mending Sump (l. 5-7). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d...
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''He's come to die
Or else to laugh, for hay is dried-up grass
When you're alone."''
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Mending Sump (l. 9-11). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2...
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One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Senten...
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Permanently (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983)...
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As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat—
You have enchanted me with a single kiss
Which can never be undone
Until the destr...
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Permanently (l. 11-15). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 198...
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''I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next
summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its
wooden beams were so inviting.''
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard ...
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''You were wearing your Edgar Allen Poe printed cotton blouse.
In each divided-up square of the blouse was a picture of Edgar Allan Poe.''
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. You Were Wearing (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., ...
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''In the yard across the street we saw a snowman holding a garbage
can lid. smashed into a likeness of the mad English king, George the
Third.''
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Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. You Were Wearing (l. 13). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1...
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