Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children

Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children - Paperback

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Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children - Paperback

Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children - Paperback

by Kenneth Koch
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Book Overview

A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.

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In 'Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?' the celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it may be taught so as to help children write poetry of their own.
ISBN9780679724711
Author Kenneth Koch
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreEducation and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 1990
LanguageENG- English
Pages416
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Education Literary Criticism Nonfiction Poetry

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About Kenneth Koch

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

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