Poet Kenneth Koch November 28, 1996 TRANSCRIPT A conversation with Kenneth Koch, winner of this year s Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Now a conversation with Kenneth Koch, winner of this year s Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. It s a privately-funded award, $10, 000, given under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Last year, Koch ...

From ON AESTHETICS AESTHETICS OF BEING A SAILBOAT Go this way and that Have a reflection Be upside down AESTHETICS OF PLATO There has to be something better Than what we see. Otherwise, we'd see it. AESTHETICS OF SURREALISM To find the impossible With breasts. AESTHETICS OF CERTAIN THINGS Certain people for certain things. Certain women for certain things. Certain men for certain things. Certain ...

Kenneth Koch To Yes You are always the member of a team, Accompanied by a question-- If this is the way the world ends, is it really going to No. Are you a Buddhist Maybe. A monsoon Yes. I have been delighted by you even in the basement When asking if I could have some coal lumps and the answer was yes. Yes to the finality of the brightness And to the enduring qualities of the lark She sings ...

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