Reviews

Thank You and Other poems by Kenneth Koch

zacharyfoote's review

4.0

closer to four-and-a-half, i think. koch's language escaped me once or twice. much more often than not, it hits on a level i'm not going to try and describe, for fear of sounding pretentious. at play throughout is a visceral, gentle joy, whether the things he describes are happy or sad. not enough people exude this kind of fundamental "alrightness" with Living Life. certainly not i, but i am working on it, and these sorts of things help. perhaps jonathan richman was taking notes.

ohainesva's review

3.0

I am generally a fan of when a guy writes sorta weird cryptic stuff. There are some in here that I did enjoy, but a lot of them were so disjointed and confusing I felt like I had maybe forgotten how to read.