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Kenneth Koch – Cause of Death, Age, Date, and Facts

The poet Kenneth Koch passed away at age 77, this age of death has to be considered respectable. What was the cause of death? Below is all you want to know regarding the death of Kenneth Koch and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

New York School poet and playwright remembered for such works as The Art of Love, Sleeping with Women, and Permanently. His later works include Seasons on Earth, One Train, and Straits.

He attended Harvard University and Columbia University.

He was a popular poetry professor at Columbia University for more than forty years.

He married Janice Elwood, with whom he had a daughter, Katherine. Following Elwood’s death, he married Karen Culler.

He and Frank O’Hara were both members of the New York School, a cosmopolitan, exuberant literary movement that broke with the introspective poetic mold of the time. 

How did Kenneth Koch die?

Information about the death of Kenneth Koch
Cause of deathN/A
Age of death77 years
ProfessionPoet
BirthdayN/A
Death dateJuly 6, 2002
Place of deathManhattan, New York, United States
Place of burialN/A

Quotes by Kenneth Koch

I’ve had trouble with criticism, I guess. It’s hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Kenneth Koch

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it’s not.

Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to publish a book.

Kenneth Koch

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven’t experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Kenneth Koch

The subject matter of the stories on the surface… there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Kenneth Koch