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    Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
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    Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing

    By Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 8, 2012
    ISBN9780307764911
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    Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
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    Kenneth Koch

    KENNETH KOCH is a Senior Partner with Corporate Training Solutions International (CTSI), a Human Resource/Training and Development firm that offers an assortment of human resource outsourcing services designed to improve the business and increase net revenue. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business and a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management. He resides in Akron, Ohio and also spends time in the Norfolk, Virginia, area as well as traveling internationally as an HR/Training and Development education specialist.

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