One Train: Poems

Book is in excellent condition with 1/4 cloth black boards on yellow with embossed print on cover, gilt at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, no tears. Marked "First Edition" on publisher's page. Smells a bit of Nag Champa incense.

From Publisher:

Intensely serious beneath a surface of lightness and wit, Kenneth Koch's poems maintain power, Denis Donoghue wrote, by rarely choosing to exert it. Koch's virtuosity - he has written many plays, an extravagant novel (The Red Robins), and short stories (Hotel Lambosa), and has done numerous collaborations with painters - seems part of a continuing and energetic attempt to write (in the words of Ariosto) things never said in prose before or in verse. Almost every poem is a new kind of poem, a new flight - in this volume, for example, the theme and variations of One Train May Hide Another, the Poems by Ships at Sea, the post-Apollinairean couplets of A Time Zone, the Chinese poetry-influenced quatrains of The First Step, and the hundred or so brief poems that together make up the poem On Aesthetics.

Product Info

ISBN: 0679434178

ISBN-13: 9780679434177

Publisher: Knopf

Year: 1994

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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