{"product_id":"one-train-poems-9780679434177","title":"One Train: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntensely serious beneath a surface of lightness and wit  Kenneth Kochs poems \"maintain power \" Denis Donoghue wrote  \"by rarely choosing to exert it.\" Kochs virtuosity -- he has written many plays  an extravagant novel (The Red Robins)  and short stories (Hotel Lambosa)  and has done numerous collaborations with painters -- seems part of a continuing and energetic attempt to write (in the words of Ariosto) \"things never said in prose before or in verse.\" Almost every poem is a new kind of poem  a new flight -- in this volume  for example  the theme and variations of \"One Train May Hide Another \" the \"poems by ships at sea \" the post-Apollinairean couplets of \"A Time Zone \" the Chinese poetry-influenced quatrains of \"The First Step \" and the hundred or so brief poems that together make up the poem \"On Aesthetics.\"  \"Kenneth Koch  a unique poet  has continued to explain his own idea of what made sense  writing poems for forty years  without ceasing to be human and funny  without ever forgetting what poetry is. The result  for the reader  is an unusual delight... He is above all a love poet  therefore a serious one. His idea to do something with language \/ That has never been done before (Days and Nights)  expressed with an immodesty that is only apparent  is made good throughout.\" Frank Kermode\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931487404085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679434178","price":66.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679434177.jpg?v=1794212520","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/one-train-poems-9780679434177","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}