Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? - by Kenneth Koch (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.

From the Back Cover

In 'Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?' the celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it may be taught so as to help children write poetry of their own.

Review Quotes

"Excellent and enormously important. . . . I urge you to buy [the book], pass [it] around, exert influence in schools. Help stamp out the kind of poetry children are normally forced to read and write." --John Gardner, The New York Times Book Review

"A handbook, anthology and instructor's guide combined, Koch's work will instantly endear itself to writers and to teachers of every age and competence." --Library Journal

"Koch is performing an extraordinary act of education." --Webster Schott, The Washington Post

"It deserves the widest possible audience, and in the shortest possible time." --Jonathan Kozol

About the Author

Kenneth Koch has published many volumes of poetry, including New Addresses, Straits and One Train. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1995, in 1996 he received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress, and he received the first Phi Beta Kappa Poetry award in November of 2001.

His short plays, many of them produced off- and off-off-Broadway, are collected in The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays. He has also written several books about poetry, including Wishes, Lies, and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and, most recently, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry. He taught undergraduates at Columbia University for many years. He passed away in 2002.