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Born in February 27, 1925 / Died in July 6, 2002 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Berke, Roberta, Bounds out of Bounds: A Compass for Recent American and British Poetry, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1981.
  • Cohen, Sarah Blacher, editor, Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1978.
  • Contemporary Dramatists, 6th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5, 1976, Volume 8, 1978, Volume 44, 1987.
  • Contemporary Poets, 7th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
  • Diggory, Terence, and Stephen Paul Miller, The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets, National Poetry Foundation, 2001.
  • Dupee, F. W., "The King of Cats" and Other Remarks on Writers and Writing, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1965.
  • Howard, Richard,Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969.
  • John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch: A Conversation, Interview Press, 1965.
  • Koch, Kenneth, The Art of Love, Random House (New York, NY), 1975.
  • Koch, Kenneth, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Lehman, David, The Last Avant-Garde, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1998.
PERIODICALS
  • American Book Review, May, 1984, Mark Hillringhouse, review of Days and Nights; November-December, 1986; May, 1989, Gary Lenhart, review of Seasons on Earth; February, 1994, pp. 12, 19.
  • American Poetry Review, November-December, 1995, review of On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988 and One Train.
  • Booklist, May 15, 1993, p. 1674; October 1, 2002, Donna Seaman, "A Poet's Fond Farewell," p. 296.
  • Commonweal, November 29, 1985, Dennis Donoghue, review of On the Edge.
  • Comparative Literature Studies, June, 1980.
  • Georgia Review, fall, 1985.
  • New Leader, January 30, 1995, pp. 14-15.
  • New Republic, August 2, 1969; March 13, 1995, Christopher Benfey, pp. 39-42.
  • Newsweek, September 16, 1985.
  • New York Review of Books, May, 1963, F. W. Dupee, review of Poems; October 20, 1966, Denis Donoghue, review of Bertha and Other Plays; September 20, 1973, Stephen Spender, review of A Change of Hearts; August 14, 1980; April 8, 1993, p. 36; January 16, 2003, Charles Simic, review of Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954, p. 13.
  • New York Times, November 21, 1970; April 10, 1977; January 19, 1978; January 12, 1979; February 7, 1995.
  • New York Times Book Review, February 11, 1968; December 23, 1973, John Gardner, review ofRose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children; September 28, 1975, Aram Saroyan, review of The Art of Love; April 10, 1977, Robert Coles, review of I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home; April 20, 1986, John Ash, review of On the Edge; June 4, 2000, Ken Tucker, "You Talking to Me?."
  • Poetry, March, 1955, Harry Roskolenko, review of Poems; June, 1955, Frank O'Hara, review of Poems; September, 1969; November, 1971; August, 1976, J. D. McClatchy, review of The Art of Love; August, 1978; April, 2000, Ben Howard, review of Straits, p. 32.
  • Publishers Weekly, April 5, 1993, p. 71; May 30, 1994, p. 45; April 27, 1998, review of Straits, p. 17; March 27, 2000, review of New Addresses, p. 71; September 23, 2002, review of A Possible World and Sun Out, p. 68.
  • Review of Contemporary Fiction, fall, 1993, pp. 221-222.
  • Sagetrieb, spring, 1993, p. 131.
  • Salmagundi, spring-summer, 1973.
  • Saturday Review, March 20, 1971, Herbert Kohl, review of Wishes, Lies, and Dreams.
  • Shenandoah, spring, 1978, Conrad Hilberry, review ofThe Art of Love.
  • Studies in Short Fiction, winter, 1995, pp. 102-105.
  • Time, April 4, 1977, review of I Never Told Anybody.
  • Times Literary Supplement, February 20, 1987.
  • Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), July 9, 1995, p. 6.
  • Village Voice, May 18, 1972; December 20, 1973; November 24, 1975, Paul Wilner, review of The Art of Love.
  • Washington Post Book World, August 3, 1975; April 17, 1977; January 12, 1986; April 13, 1986; August 28, 1988, Terence Winch, review of Seasons on Earth; January 1, 1995, David Lehman, review of One Thousand Avant-garde Plays, p. 8.
  • World Literature Today, winter, 1984, John Boening, review of Days and Nights; winter, 1994, Bernard F. Dick, review of Hotel Lambosa and Other Stories, p. 142; autumn, 1995, pp. 800-801.
  • Yale Review, July, 1985.
ONLINE
  • Jacket Online, http://www.jacket.zip.com/ (March 17, 1989), John Tranter, "Very Rapid Acceleration: An Interview with Kenneth Koch."
OBITUARIES: PERIODICALS
  • Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2002, p. B10.
  • New York Times, July 8, 2002, p. A16.
  • Times (London, England), July 29, 2002.
ONLINE
  • International Herald Tribune Online, http://www.iht.com/ (July 9, 2002).