Kenneth Koch published many volumes of poetry, most recently A
Possible World and New Addresses. His short plays, many of them
produced off- and off-off-Broadway, are collected in The Gold
Standard- A Book of Plays and One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays. He
also wrote several books about poetry, including Wishes, Lies, and
Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and Making Your Own
Days- The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry. His fiction is
brought together in Collected Fiction. He was the winner of the
Bollingen Prize (1995) and the Bobbitt Library of Congress Poetry
Prize (1996), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (1995) and the
National Book Award (2000), and winner of the first annual Phi Beta
Kappa Poetry Award (2001). Kenneth Koch lived with his wife, Karen,
in New York City and taught at Columbia University. He died in
2002.
From the Hardcover edition.
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