Straits: Poems
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 04/01/2000
Description:
Now in paperback, an audacious book of poems combining comic awareness and sensuous excitement -- both Koch trademarks. Here is an excerpt from Koch's exuberant Straits masterpiece, a four-part contemporary pastoral entitled "The Seasons". Following is a taste of "Summer":
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. . . Here hot dogs sizzle at the curb, there flash
From windows rays of sunlight that bedazzle
The eyes of those who buy them and begin
To take a bite of before the change is given
For the five dollar bill they have extended
To the frankfurter salesman, smiling man
in workaday blue apron with two hands
That rapidly can shuffle sauerkraut
Between two halves of bun and with his spoon
Or ladle slap the mustard on, present
The finished hot dogs to the waiting friends
Ere they were conscious he had yet begun . . .
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