Koch, Kenneth 2000
Hounded by Central Islip till the end
Of pyrethmetic days, and onward wishing
Oh that he like me and she like me too,
And the green arboretum bush waving
And the elephant in his noose waving
And the deaths saying goodbye–
– Kenneth Koch, “From Seine”
Listen to Kenneth Koch’s reading with Dean Young for the Poetry Center of Chicago on February 10, 2000:
Not so unsound as a path
Nor so white as a star
Fairly wild with the sound of my own hoof
I the horse race into the back edges
Of my existence!
– Kenneth Koch, “The Horse”
Read an interview with Kenneth Koch from Jacket Magazine:
Jacket 5 – Interview with Kenneth Koch
I guess it’s difficult to write a thousand long plays, but some of these are really short: I mean, like half a page. Why are they so short – probably I really don’t know. I just had the ability to write short plays at the time… I’ve written three-act plays…
