Volume 50, Number 1 · January 16, 2003
'The Water Hose Is on Fire'
By Charles Simic
Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954
by Kenneth Koch
Knopf, 142 pp., $25.00
A Possible World
by Kenneth Koch
Knopf, 96 pp., $24.00
More than fifty years separate these two new collections of Kenneth Koch's poetry. While Sun Out gathers for the first time some of his earliest and most experimental poems, A Possible World is the work of the last years of his life. He died last July at the age of seventy-seven. In addition to eighteen books of poetry, which include Selected Poems, 1950–1982, he left behind two works of fiction, numerous short plays, and two books on teaching poetry to children.
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