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Making Your own Days - The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
by Koch, Kenneth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 068483992X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684839929
- Seller
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Douglas, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner. Book and jacket in very good condition, minimal shelf wear and soiling, no markings, binding is tight and square. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing First Edition. 1998.
Synopsis
In Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. Treating poetry not as a special use of language but, in fact, as a separate language -- unlike the one used in prose and conversation -- Koch is able to clarify the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens in a reader's mind and feelings while reading a poem. Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works: lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation -- by poets past and present from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery. Each selection is accompanied by an illuminating explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text. In this book, Kenneth Koch's genius for making poetry clear and for bringing out its real pleasures is everywhere apparent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jen's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016592
- Title
- Making Your own Days - The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
- Author
- Koch, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 068483992X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684839929
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- One Train; Rose, Where Did you Get That red? Storageb, Jacque Audit, 10/2 date books
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾.
Terms of Sale
Jen's Books
Most are shipped the same day, all books will be shipped within 3 days of payment. Returns.1. Incorrect Book/Not As Described/Damaged: You are eligible for a full refund of the purchase price, including shipping costs, if your return is a result of an error on my part. To receive a refund, you must return your item directly to Jen's Books within 30 days of the estimated delivery date and in the same condition you received it in. 2. Book Did Not Arrive. You are eligible for a full refund of the purchase price, including shipping costs, if your book does not arrive between the estimated delivery date + 15 days and the estimated delivery date + 30 days. (For example if your estimated delivery date was November 1st, you would be eligible for a refund if the book still had not arrived by November 16th. You could initiate the return until December 1st.) 3. Changed Your Mind If you have changed your mind about a book that you have ordered, please contact me directly to request a return. You will be refunded the price of the book (not including original or return shipping charges). I will be happy to accommodate these requests for books in the same condition as when shipped.
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