New Addresses: Poems Sports is glamorous

is glamorous

with a simple name like the other girls--why couldn't her parents have named her Megan or Bella

where they never have to worry about saving the world

Kidan knows no soul at Uxlay is trustworthy—least of all Susenyos

In the muggy

New Addresses: Poems Sports is glamorousKenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at