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.

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.

Introduction: Teaching Great Poetry to Children
Introduction #2 (1990)

*TEN LESSONS*

Chapter One.
WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger

Chapter Two.
ROBERT HERRICK The Argument of His Book

Chapter Three.
JOHN DONNE A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Chapter Four.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Songs

Chapter Five.
WALT WHITMAN from Song of Myself sections 1 and 2

Chapter Six.
WALLACE STEVENS Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Chapter Seven.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This Is Just to Say; The Locust Tree in Flower; Between Walls

Chapter Eight.
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Romance Sonambulo; Arbole, Arbole

Chapter Nine.
JOHN ASHBERY Into the Dusk-Charged Air

Chapter Ten.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Voyelles

*ANTHOLOGY*
Introduction to the Anthology

AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Cuckoo Song
The Irish Dancer

DANTE ALIGHIERI
Sonetto / Sonnet

AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The Demon Lover
Lord Randal

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Sonnet

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Over Hill, over Dale
Under the Greenwood Tree
Aubade
Orpheus with His Lute
Sonnet

ROBERT HERRICK
Delight in Disorder
How Violets Came Blew
How Roses Came Red
How Marigolds Came Yellow

GEORGE HERBERT
Heaven

THOMAS CAREW
A Song

WILLIAM BLAKE
The Lamb
The Sick Rose

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Kubla Khan

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Ode to the West Wind

JOHN KEATS
Ode on a Grecian Urn

ROBERT BROWNING
Home Thoughts, from Abroad

WALT WHITMAN
from Song of Myself section 15
from Song of Myself section 26

EMILY DICKINSON
I Never Saw a Moor

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
God's Grandeur

ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Fleurs / Flowers

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Who Goes with Fergus?

GUILLAUME APOLLI NAIRE
Coeur Couronne et Miroir / Heart Crown and Mirror

D. H. LAWRENCE
The White Horse
Trees in the Garden
Humming-Bird

RAINER MARIA RILKE
Der Knabe / The Boy
Aus einer Kindheit / From a Childhood

WALLACE STEVENS
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Bantams in Pine-Woods

MARIANNE MOORE
The Wood-Weasel

LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR
Je veux dire ton nom / I Want to Say Your Name

ELIZABETH BISHOP
Cirque d'Hiver

GABRIEL OKARA
Piano and Drums

FRANK O'HARA
Les Étiquettes Jaunes
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island

JOHN ASHBERY
The Painter

Four Chinese Poems

    CH'U YUAN
    In Praise of the Orange Tree

    AUTHOR UNKNOWN
    Oath of Friendship

    PO CHU-I
    Eating Bamboo Shoots

    HAN-SHAN
    Cold Mountain Poems

Five Japanese Poems

    SHIKI
    What a wonderful day!

    ISSA
    Wild goose

    RYOTA
    No one spoke

    BASHO
    The old pond
    With what voice

Two African Tribal Poems

    The Magnificent Bull
    Song for the Sun That Disappeared behind the Rainclouds

Three American Indian Poems

    Dawn Song
    Love-Charm Song
    The War God's Horse Song

SOME POEMS FROM SWAZILAND

Afterword (Mainly for Teachers)
Bibliographical Note
Author and Title Index of Adult Poems
Subject Index of Adult Poems

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