The Banquet: The Complete Plays, Films, and Librettos by Kenneth Koch PAPERBACK

Coffee House Press

The BanquetThe Complete Plays, Films, and Librettos\nAuthor(s): Kenneth Koch, Karen Koch, Ron Padgett, Jordan Davis, Mac Wellman, Amber Reed\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Coffee House Press, United States\nImprint: Coffee House Press\nISBN-13: 9781566893282, 978-1566893282\nSynopsis\n\""Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think.\""--Mac Wellman The Banquet brings together 144 plays, ten screenplays, and five operas spanning more than five decades of experimental work from a writer John Ashbery has called \""simply the best we have.\"" Witty, provocative, and playful, Kenneth Koch's work draws on poetry, musicals, improvisational comedy, satire, and other forms for their inspiration and touches on subjects ranging from the silly to the sublime. Kenneth Koch [tel], known for his association with the New York School of poetry, wrote many collections of poetry, fiction, play.