New Addresses
New Addresses by Kenneth Koch, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on October 30, 2001, is a reprint edition comprising 96 pages. In this work, Koch explores the poetic device of apostrophe, engaging in direct address to various elements significant to his life. This approach allows him to express thoughts and emotions that transcend traditional prose and verse, revitalizing a form that has been utilized by poets such as Donne and Whitman.
Readers will find Koch addressing a diverse range of topics, including Breath, World War Two, and Friendship, creating an exhilarating autobiography that defies expectations. The book delves into themes of death, grief, and loss, while also reflecting on personal experiences and cultural influences. Through these “new addresses,” Koch offers a unique perspective that invites contemplation and connection with the reader’s own life experiences.
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Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably “stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry” (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O’Hara to the Sun at Fire Island.
Koch, in this new book, talks to things important in his life — to Breath, to World War Two, to Orgasms, to the French Language, to Jewishness, to Psychoanalysis, to Sleep, to his Heart, to Friendship, to High Spirits, to his Twenties, to the Unknown. He makes of all these “new addresses” an exhilarating autobiography of a most surprising and unforeseeable kind.
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