Koch

Kenneth Koch

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-“associated with abstract impressionists”

-“brought verbal constructs to the principles of abstract expressionism” ; “used words abstractly and evocatively”

- Koch eventually “elevated his lyric view to another level”that was “better organized and more simplified than his earlier view”

Kenneth Koch (pronounced Coke) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on the 27th of February 1925. He attended Harvard University and Columbia University where he received his M.A. in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 and married Mary Janice Elwood in 1955 and had one daughter. He married Karen Culler in 1994. He worked as a lecturer and assistant professor. Koch died of leukemia on July 6, 2002 at 77 years old.

Koch reads To Psychoanalysis

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