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The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch.(Book review)
Chicago Review
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September 22, 2006|
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The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch. New York: Knopf, 2005. 761 pp. $40
Of the three kings most identified with the New York School of Poets, Kenneth Koch is the least heralded. While his status as a celebrity teacher for several generations at Columbia shows the reach of his influence, one feels that O'Hara and Ashbery have marked the fabrics of contemporary American poetry more indelibly, that their influence has bled through more layers. It may be that Koch's new-fangled egotistical sublime is, in the end, more his own, and thus less easily imitated than the ...
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