"To Psychoanalysis" by Kenneth Koch (poetry reading)

[rosasparx]

this is amazing~

[thallassocracy]

Koch is the only English poet I know - maybe apart from Skelton - who can actually do slapstick in poetry.

"Ruined cities were as nothing to me."

I had to stop the video and start again - I had lost my place through laughing.

I knew this poem before, but the way you read it even the Capital Letters are funny.

That is probably how It should Be.

[videopossum]

@thallassocracy

Koch was (is?) an American poet. He was born in Cincinatti and seems to have spent his entire life in the US until his death in 2002. This recording, though a lovely reading, isn't Koch.

[chalky5678]

I have heard this poem many times. But try as a might, i can never understand it. I come to a conclusion, only to be discontent with it, and force myself to delve further into the poem, but I never seem to be satisfied with what i discover.