KOCH, KENNETH

KOCH, KENNETH
KOCH, KENNETH (1925–2002), U.S. poet. Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and as a young man, fought in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II. He later studied at Harvard, and one of his teachers was the poet Delmore Schwartz. He received an M.A. from Columbia University as well as a Ph.D. Along with Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, he was one of the major figures of the "New York School" of poetry. He was also part of a group that included the painter Larry Rivers. His own poetry, which makes free and exuberant use of the absurd, the non sequitur, and the juxtaposition of incongruous images, exerted wide influence among younger poets. Among his published volumes are Ko, or A Season on Earth (1959), Thank You, and Other Poems (1962), The Art of Love (1975) and The Duplications (1977). Koch taught poetry at Columbia University beginning in 1959. Koch also became well-known for teaching poetry to school children as well as to the   elderly. His Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children (1973) is considered one of the landmarks in teaching creative writing. The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch and his Collected Poems were published in 2005. (Lewis Fried (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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