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Kenneth Koch

A Conversation between Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery

“What you say is very unclear, but I suppose you mean that since I find one of your remarks illogical and since I like your poems, that therefore I must like poems which are illogical. But I don’t find your poems either logical or illogical. If you want this interview to have the logic of a poem and not ordinary logic we will have to start over again.”

John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch This Recording Jan 1965 20min Permalink