Bold Type's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes that "Koch's amiable confessionalism is displayed in a more frisky and elegantly informal way than one would find in, for instance, Robert Lowell's Life Studies or Anne Sexton's harrowing The Awful Rowing Toward God. It is closer to the frolicsome exposures of Allen Ginsberg's Reality Sandwiches than to the naked intensity of that same author's Kaddish. Koch's previous book, Straits, showed a broader landscape of urbane deliberation and insight, but there is a certain giddy inertia to New Addresses."

Read an interview with Koch along with a poem from New Addresses and an essay.