{"product_id":"sun-out-sun-out-selected-poems-1952-1954-paperback","title":"Sun Out: Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952-1954 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenneth Koch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Koch's poems have a natural voice, they are quick, alert, instinctive . . . He has vivacity and go, originality of perception and intoxication with life. Most important of all, he is not dull.\" --Frank O'Hara, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, 1955 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGathered together for the first time, the exciting, startling early work of one of our finest poets. Writing as a young man in the 1950s, Koch, a member of the now famed New York School along with John Ashbery, Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara, and others, experimented with the delicate balance between sound and sense to offer a series of poems resembling music or abstract painting. For example, he opens the title poem with: \"Bananas, piers, limericks \/ I am postures \/ Over there, I, are \/ The lakes of delectation \/ Sea, sea you \"\u003cbr\u003eAlso included are a selection of short plays in verse and Koch's innovative masterpiece, \"When the Sun Tries to Go On,\" a poem that \"produces a radical reworking of the life-poem myth predominant in American poetics since 'Song of Myself'\" (William Watkins, In the Process of Poetry). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout \"When the Sun Tries to Go On,\" David Lehman wrote, \"Koch takes a great deal of delight in the sounds of words and his consciousness of them; he splashes them like paint on a page with enthusiastic puns, internal rhymes, titles of books, names of friends, and seems surprised as we are at the often witty outcome\" (Poetry, 1968). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the poems in \u003ci\u003eSun Out\u003c\/i\u003e were originally published, they set a standard for the freshness and surprise of language used in extraordinary ways. For almost five decades they have delighted readers lucky enough to find them. It is our pleasure to make them once again available in this new and provocative collection.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Koch's poems have a natural voice, they are quick, alert, instinctive . . . He has vivacity and go, originality of perception and intoxication with life. Most important of all, he is not dull.\" --Frank O'Hara, \"Poetry, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eGathered together for the first time, the exciting, startling early work of one of our finest poets. Writing as a young man in the 1950s, Koch, a member of the now famed New York School along with John Ashbery, Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara, and others, experimented with the delicate balance between sound and sense to offer a series of poems resembling music or abstract painting. For example, he opens the title poem with: \"Bananas, piers, limericks \/ I am postures \/ Over there, I, are \/ The lakes of delectation \/ Sea, sea you!\"\u003cbr\u003eAlso included are a selection of short plays in verse and Koch's innovative masterpiece, \"When the Sun Tries to Go On,\" a poem that \"produces a radical reworking of the life-poem myth predominant in American poetics since 'Song of Myself'\" (William Watkins, In the Process of Poetry). \u003cbr\u003eAbout \"When the Sun Tries to Go On,\" David Lehman wrote, \"Koch takes a great deal of delight in the sounds of words and his consciousness of them; he splashes them like paint on a page with enthusiastic puns, internal rhymes, titles of books, names of friends, and seems surprised as we are at the often witty outcome\" (Poetry, 1968). \u003cbr\u003eWhen the poems in \"Sun Out were originally published, they set a standard for the freshness and surprise of language used in extraordinary ways. For almost five decades they have delighted readers lucky enough to find them. It is our pleasure to make them once again available in this new and provocative collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKENNETH KOCH\u003c\/b\u003e wrote many volumes of poetry, short plays, and books about poetry. He was the winner of the Bollingen Prize, the Library of Congress Poetry Prize, and the first annual Phi Beta Kappa Award. He taught for many years at Columbia University. He died in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9.3 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752967209248,"sku":"9780375709999","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dda54b9bfb056b22b96163a3ff6d7fe5.webp?v=1780008749","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sun-out-sun-out-selected-poems-1952-1954-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}