Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

by
Kenneth Koch
Published in 1999
by Touchstone

The late prize-winning author Kenneth Koch muses on the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens in the mind while reading a poem. Koch also discusses over ninety works of poetry from poets such as Homer, Sappho, Federico García Lorca, Gary Snyder, and John Ashbery.