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Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC. Reviews the physiology of gastric myoelectrical activity and the signal it produces and presents information on electrogastrography (EGG), the technique used to measure the signal. Provides an historical overview of the EGG, computer techniques for analyzing EGGs, and reviews neuromuscular disorders of the stomach. For clinicians. ... Read more

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Very informative
This book was very informative and could be read by someome without a degree in medicine.For anyone that needs an EGG, it's good background information and very interesting. ... Read more

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Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC. Quick reference for non-specialists. Covers a wide range of interventions and the aids to differential diagnosis. Describes the various causes of dyspepsia and guidance on management of each condition. Softcover. ... Read more

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Kenneth Koch continues to expand the range of what is possible to do in poetry. His title poem is a stirring collection of disconnected and connected sentences on such themes as love, politics, and the exploration of sub-polar seas. "Vous etes plus beaux que vous ne pensiez" is a series of bright, rapid sketches of the lives of ten artists and writers. Writing in a variant of the style of the eighteenth-century poet James Thomson, Koch revives an old genre--praise of the seasons--with his own characteristic mixture of clarity and sensuous excitement. A group of twenty-five poems called "Songs from the Plays" creates a new genre: songs written for plays that don't exist but from which plays might be imagined or constructed. "My Olivetti Speaks" is perhaps Koch's clearest and wittiest meditation on the nature of poetry itself. The themes of time and change in individual lives are given an unusual look in "Study of Time" and the Villon-like "Ballade." ... Read more

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Mr. Koch’s poems have a natural voice, they are quick, alert, instinctive . . . He has vivacity and go, originality of perception and intoxication with life. Most important of all, he is not dull.” --Frank O’Hara, Poetry, 1955

Gathered together for the first time, the exciting, startling early work of one of our finest poets. Writing as a young man in the 1950s, Koch, a member of the now famed New York School along with John Ashbery, Larry Rivers, Frank O’Hara, and others, experimented with the delicate balance between sound and sense to offer a series of poems resembling music or abstract painting. For example, he opens the title poem with: “Bananas, piers, limericks / I am postures / Over there, I, are / The lakes of delectation / Sea, sea you!”
Also included are a selection of short plays in verse and Koch’s innovative masterpiece, “When the Sun Tries to Go On,” a poem that “produces a radical reworking of the life-poem myth predominant in American poetics since ‘Song of Myself’” (William Watkins, In the Process of Poetry).

About “When the Sun Tries to Go On,” David Lehman wrote, “Koch takes a great deal of delight in the sounds of words and his consciousness of them; he splashes them like paint on a page with enthusiastic puns, internal rhymes, titles of books, names of friends, and seems surprised as we are at the often witty outcome” (Poetry, 1968).

When the poems in Sun Out were originally published, they set a standard for the freshness and surprise of language used in extraordinary ways. For almost five decades they have delighted readers lucky enough to find them. It is our pleasure to make them once again available in this new and provocative collection.


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A real find
This book combines largely unpublished short poems of the early 1950s with the mock-epic "When the sun tries to go on," published in the late 1960s but pretty much unavailable now.This early Koch is particularly refreshing.Koch died in July of 2002 and has published many volumes of poetry, and this work brings us back to his literary origins. ... Read more