As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven’t experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! Kenneth Koch Read Quote
The subject matter of the stories on the surface… there seem to be a number of stories about travel. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
