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Kenneth Koch

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kenneth Koch (Kenneth Jay Koch) , 1925-2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b. Cincinnati. After studying at Harvard and Columbia he was associated with the Artist's Theatre, Locus Solus magazine, and, along with friends John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, the so-called New York School of Poets. Combining modernism, lyricism, and humor, Koch's "antisymbolic" poetic style is characterized by witty juxtapositions and dislocations of words. His roughly 30 volumes of verse include Poems (1953), Days and Nights (1982), New Addresses (2000), and two... Read more

Koch, Kenneth (Jay)
Koch, Kenneth [Jay] (1925–2002), Cincinnati born author, educated at Harvard (A.B., 1948) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1959), was a professor... Read more

New York School
New York School, name applied to a group of poets including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler , whose writing, distinguished for visual detail, relates to New York's Abstract Expressionist... Read more

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	THE COLLECTED FICTION OF KENNETH KOCH ; ...output of a New York School poet THE COLLECTED FICTION OF KENNETH KOCH Edited by Jordan Davis, Karen Koch, and Ron Padgett Coffee House Press, 387 pp. $18 ROBIN GOOD Kenneth Koch taught his Columbia students how to write verse by copying... Read more
	Obituary: Kenneth Koch Poet with a New York School sense of fun ; SO APPEALING was the exuberance of Kenneth Koch that he managed to inspire affection...Verse was almost uniquely bridged by Koch. In a war where no prisoners are taken, it is a testament to Koch's attractive gusto that both sides... Read more
	THE COLLECTED POEMS OF KENNETH KOCH BOOKS / POETRY ; ...12-16-2005 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF KENNETH KOCH761 pages. $40. Alfred...NussbaumIn a 1993 interview, Kenneth* Koch ticked off his influences...Cage and Shakespeare.Finally, Koch laughed and summed himself...le deluge of copycats! But Koch's writing has always felt propelled... Read more
	The importance of being humorous.(On Poetry)(The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch)(Book Review) ; KENNETH KOCH, who died in 2002, was the major American comic poet of recent times. Always...American art in the latter half of the 20th century. The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch (Knopf, 761 pp., $40.00), consisting of his 10 shorter volumes--from Thank... Read more
	W. Kenneth Koch, helped bring banks into computer age; at 90 ; W. Kenneth Koch, 90, of Norwell, a pioneer in computer banking at the Bank...did back in 1958, thanks in large measure to men like Ken Koch," the bank's newsletter reported. Mr. Koch retired as a data processing vice president but in his earlier... Read more
	POETRY; FICTION; A clarified view of a cultural icon; Two collections - one of poems, another of stories- bring together the whimsical and goofy if sometimes tone-deaf works of Kenneth Koch (1925-2002).(ENTERTAINMENT)(Book Review) ; ...of the holy trinity is the late Kenneth Koch, who was by far the funniest, if...decades, and The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch brings them between two covers...issued The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch, which brings together all of Koch... Read more

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	Metropolitan master: John Koch: a self-taught painter with a penchant for the European grand tradition, Koch chronicled an exceptionally graceful form of New York life. In the subtle studio interiors and domestic scenes assembled for a recent 40-year retrospective, his knack for intimate disclosure is counterbalanced by an unbreachable code of restraint.

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