Sleeping on the Wing

Download or read book Sleeping on the Wing written by Kenneth Koch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will find it accessible and interesting. The book includes selections of poetry by twenty-three poets, among them Dickinson, Hopkins, Pound, Williams and Eliot, as well as Ginsberg, O'Hara, Baraka and Ashbery. There is also the translated work of such modern European poets such as Lorca, Rilke, Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Mayakowsky.