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Bastards: Management Advice You Should Have Been Given Long Ago
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Product Description: Most managers hold a common set of beliefs that hold them back from helping their employees perform. It's time to overcome your destructive behavior or stop it from developing in the first place. If you are a business student, you'll find tips and strategies to bring about positive change for your future employer...read more
By Kenneth Koch
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9781462005970 | Iuniverse Inc, April 1, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Most managers hold a common set of beliefs that hold them back from helping their employees perform.

On the Edge: Collected Long Poems
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Product Description: In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Koch’s six masterly, groundbreaking longer poems, which contain some of the poet’s most original work, full of exclamation and exaggeration but graced as well with dry wit and sophistication...read more
By Kenneth Koch
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9780307262844 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 23, 2007), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A companion volume to the Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch brings together six longer poetic masterworks that include When the Sun Tries to Go On, The Duplications, Seasons on Earth, Impressions of Africa, On the Edge, and Ko, or A Season on Earth.

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9780375711206 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 6, 2009, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In paperback for the first time: Kenneth Koch’s six masterly, groundbreaking longer poems, which contain some of the poet’s most original work, full of exclamation and exaggeration but graced as well with dry wit and sophistication.

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
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The first compilation of ten collections of poetry spanning the forty-year career of the award-winning poet is gathered in a single volume of poems celebrating love, art, and the pleasures of the senses.
By Kenneth Koch
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9781400044993 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The first compilation of ten collections of poetry spanning the forty-year career of the award-winning poet is gathered in a single volume of poems celebrating love, art, and the pleasures of the senses.

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9780375711190 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 2, 2007), cover price $34.95

Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems
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Draws on the full range of the New York School-educated writer's body of poetry and offers insight into his transition from high-energy comic writings into the more lyrical pieces of his later years, in a volume that includes such works as 'Fresh Air,' 'The Pleasures of Peace,' and 'The Art of Poetry.'
By Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett (editor)
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9781598530063 | Library of America, April 19, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Draws on the full range of the New York School-educated writer's body of poetry and offers insight into his transition from high-energy comic writings into the more lyrical pieces of his later years, in a volume that includes such works as 'Fresh Air,' 'The Pleasures of Peace,' and 'The Art of Poetry.

Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch
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Product Description: "It's lucky for us all that you're holding Koch's collected fiction in your hands right now. Koch's seasons on our earth were blessed ones and these traces, some of them among his last, are gifts."-Jonathan Lethem Hilarious and profoundly moving, this volume restores to print all the fiction of the writer John Ashbery called "simply the best we have...read more
By Jordan Davis (introduced by) and Kenneth Koch
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9781566891806, titled "The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch" | Coffee House Pr, December 10, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "It's lucky for us all that you're holding Koch's collected fiction in your hands right now.

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9781566891769 | Coffee House Pr, October 1, 2005, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: “It’s lucky for us all that you’re holding Koch’s collected fiction in your hands right now.

Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly Without Pictures
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Product Description: The Art of the Possible: Comics Mostly without Pictures is infused with the same energetic wordplay, humor, and tenderness as the best of Koch's poems, and illustrated and lettered in his own hand, studded with visual puns and jokes, peopled with recognizable characters from the worlds of arts and letters...read more
By Kenneth Koch and David Lehman
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9781932360196, titled "The Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly Without Pictures" | Soft Skull Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The Art of the Possible: Comics Mostly without Pictures is infused with the same energetic wordplay, humor, and tenderness as the best of Koch's poems, and illustrated and lettered in his own hand, studded with visual puns and jokes, peopled with recognizable characters from the worlds of arts and letters.

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9781932360189 | Soft Skull Pr, May 30, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Art of the Possible: Comics Mostly without Pictures is infused with the same energetic wordplay, humor, and tenderness as the best of Koch's poems, and illustrated and lettered in his own hand, studded with visual puns and jokes, peopled with recognizable characters from the worlds of arts and letters.

Sun Out: Selected Poems: 1952-1954
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A treasury of early works by the award-winning poet follows his experimentation with the balance between sound and sense, in a volume that conveys his use of unusual language, seriousness, and humor. Reprint.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375414916, titled "Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952-1954" | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Mr.

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9780375709999 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A treasury of early works by the award-winning poet follows his experimentation with the balance between sound and sense, in a volume that conveys his use of unusual language, seriousness, and humor.

A Possible World
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A final collection of poetic works by the award-winning writer is comprised of three long, memoir-like poems that directly and indirectly reflect his life and work, in a volume complemented by pieces that follow such themes as death and injustice. Reprint.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375710001 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A final collection of poetic works by the award-winning writer is comprised of three long, memoir-like poems that directly and indirectly reflect his life and work, in a volume complemented by pieces that follow such themes as death and injustice.

A Possible World: Poems
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Product Description: "For the last thirty years or more, Kenneth Koch has been writing the most exuberant poems in America. In an arena where such good spirits are rare, he has become a national treasure. In his book of personal addresses to what has mattered most in his seventy-plus years on the planet, there is a dimension of pathos and joy rare in the poetry of any era...read more
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375414923 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: "For the last thirty years or more, Kenneth Koch has been writing the most exuberant poems in America.

New Addresses
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A new collection of reflective, joyful poems celebrates seminal events and influences in the poet's life, including 'piano lessons,' 'Jewishness,' and 'marijuana.' Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375709128 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A new collection of reflective, joyful poems celebrates seminal events and influences in the poet's life, including 'piano lessons,' 'Jewishness,' and 'marijuana.

Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
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The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout with pleasure. In this vivid account, Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a valuable text for all those who care about freeing the creative imagination and educating the young. (view table of contents)
By Kenneth Koch
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9780394404981, titled "Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1970, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.

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9780060955090 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 1999), cover price $13.99

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9780613276047 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $25.70

New Addresses: Poems
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A new collection of reflective, joyful poems celebrates seminal events and influences in the poet's life, including 'piano lessons,' 'Jewishness,' and 'marijuana.'
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375410277 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of reflective, joyful poems celebrates seminal events and influences in the poet's life, including piano lessons, Jewishness, and marijuana.

Straits
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The poet's first collection since The Art of Love explores themes of ecstasy, unity, freedom, and completeness, among other important themes. Reprint.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375701337 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1999), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The poet's first collection since The Art of Love explores themes of ecstasy, unity, freedom, and completeness, among other important themes.

Making Your Own Days: The Pleasure of Reading and Writing Poetry
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Selections from the work of sixty-five poets, from Homer and Ovid to Frank O'Hara and John Ashberry, accompany a discussion of poetry, including meter, line division, rhyme, and poetic forms (view table of contents)
By Kenneth Koch
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9780684824383 | Touchstone Books, April 8, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Selections from the work of sixty-five poets, from Homer and Ovid to Frank O'Hara and John Ashberry, accompany a discussion of poetry, including meter, line division, rhyme, and poetic forms
9789990091366 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays
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Product Description: Kenneth Koch's lively, original, and acclaimed book of nine plays--some surrealist, some data, all readable and funny--are now available in a paperback edition. Koch has received many honors for his work, including most recently the Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780679450825 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of plays by Kenneth Koch includes 'The Red Robins,' 'George Washington Crossing the Delaware,' and 'Edward and Christine'

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9780375701399 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kenneth Koch's lively, original, and acclaimed book of nine plays--some surrealist, some data, all readable and funny--are now available in a paperback edition.

Straits: Poems
Poems deal with love, politics, the nature of poetry, the lives of artists and writers, the seasons, time, and change (view table of contents)
By Kenneth Koch
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9780375401367 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1998), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with love, politics, the nature of poetry, the lives of artists and writers, the seasons, time, and change

Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
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One of the nation's premier poets discusses the esoteric pleasures of reading and writing poetry, with an explanation of the separate language of music, rhythm, rhyme, and meter essential to understanding this literary genre. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Kenneth Koch
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9780684839929 | Scribner, April 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Selections from the work of sixty-five poets, from Homer and Ovid to Frank O'Hara and John Ashberry, accompany a discussion of poetry, including meter, line division, rhyme, and poetic forms

I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People
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By Kenneth Koch
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9780915924530 | Teachers & Writers, June 1, 1997, cover price $55.01

One Train
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In this volume, the themes and variations of 'One Train May Hide Another', the 'poems by ships at sea', and the post-Apollinaire couplets of 'A Time Zone', for example, reveal Kenneth Koch's interest in new forms, directions and kinds of writing.
By Kenneth Koch
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9781857542691 | Carcanet Pr, March 27, 1997, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: In this volume, the themes and variations of 'One Train May Hide Another', the 'poems by ships at sea', and the post-Apollinaire couplets of 'A Time Zone', for example, reveal Kenneth Koch's interest in new forms, directions and kinds of writing.
9780679765837 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with hidden meaning, revelation, Chinese poetry, and aesthetics

The Art of Poetry: Poems, Parodies, Interviews, Essays, and Other Work
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Product Description: A charter member of the legendary New York School of poets that includes John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch has become one of America's best known and best loved poets. His apt parodies and zany poetic conceits have earned him the distinction of being the funniest poet in America, and his extravagant imagination and knack for high hilarity have pleased generations of readers...read more
By Kenneth Koch
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9780472096053 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: A charter member of the legendary New York School of poets that includes John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch has become one of America's best known and best loved poets.

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9780472066056 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A charter member of the legendary New York School of poets that includes John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch has become one of America's best known and best loved poets.

On The Great Atlantic Railway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
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Originally published in 1994, a selection of poems by an award-winning poet gathers the best of his work over thirty-eight years. By the author of One Train. Reprint.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780679765820 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1996), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Selections from nearly forty years of the poet's writings feature epic poetry, short plays in verse, and lyric, satiric, love, and autobiographical poems

On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
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Presents a retrospective anthology of richly diverse poetry, selected from among nearly forty years of literary work, by a critically acclaimed American poet.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780679434184 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Selections from nearly forty years of the poet's writings feature epic poetry, short plays in verse, and lyric, satiric, love, and autobiographical poems

One Train: Poems
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A witty and playful collection of poetry encompasses poems in which the protagonists are ships at sea; meditations on the metamorphoses of beings, things, and concepts; and reflections on the aesthetics of bears, obituaries, and pearls, among others.
By Kenneth Koch
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9780679434177 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1994), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with hidden meaning, revelation, Chinese poetry, and aesthetics

Hotel Lambosa and Other Stories
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A collection of short stories of two pages or less features 'Antonellos,' 'Steps,' 'Relations,' 'White Night,' 'A Double Standard,' 'In China,' 'The Moor of Venice,' and others
By Kenneth Koch
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9781566890083 | Coffee House Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories of two pages or less features 'Antonellos,' 'Steps,' 'Relations,' 'White Night,' 'A Double Standard,' 'In China,' 'The Moor of Venice,' and others

Selected Poems
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By Kenneth Koch
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Hardcover:

9780856359163 | Carcanet Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $41.95

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