Sleeping on the Wing

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.

Kenneth Koch has published many volumes of poetry, including <b>New Addresses</b>, <b>Straits</b> and <b>One Train</b>. 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 <b>The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays</b>. He has also written several books about poetry, including <b>Wishes, Lies, and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?</b>; and, most recently, <b>Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry</b>. He taught undergraduates at Columbia University for many years. He passed away in 2002.