On The Great Atlantic Railway Selected Poems 1950-1988

"His poems have daring, ease and sprazzatura; they are formally accomplished without pomposity. Like Ginsberg, Koch can be alternately antic and tragic in the same poem. Both poets offer the gift of performance in work that can be understood at first hearing....Though Koch sometimes writes throwaways and one-liners, 'On the Great Atlantic Railway' reveals a poet of intimacy and size, lyricism and intelligence. Because his work is light-hearted, it has been accused of triviality. Yet in poems like his hilarious poelmic 'Fresh Air', Koch shows the fiercely moral nature of the true satirist. Koch wishes to relieve poetry of false height and forced sentimentality."Koch, Kenneth is the author of 'On The Great Atlantic Railway Selected Poems 1950-1988' with ISBN 9780679765820 and ISBN 0679765824.