WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON

by Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers

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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Signed limited handbound edition of this illustrated book by frequent New York School collaborators Rivers and Koch, the product of friendly poetic competition between Koch and Frank O'Hara. Fine. Item #50561 Originally composed in 1953 but not published until 1969, WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON was Koch's most concerted effort to simulate in poetry the effects of Abstract

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