The house on Boulevard St. : new and selected poems / David Kirby.
2007
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Title
The house on Boulevard St. : new and selected poems / David Kirby.
Author
ISBN
0807132144 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807132142 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807132152 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807132159 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807132142 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807132152 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807132159 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Description
x, 153 pages ; 23 cm.
Exhibited
2007 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)67728263
Summary
Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.
The poems in The House on Boulevard St. were written within earshot of David Kirby's Old World masters, Shakespeare and Dante. From the former, Kirby takes the compositional method of organizing not only the whole book but also each separate section as a dream; from the latter, a three-part scheme that gives the book rough symmetry. Long-lined and often laugh-out-loud funny, Kirby's poems are ample steamer trunks into which the poet seems to be able to put just about anything-the heated restlessness of youth, the mixed blessings of self-imposed exile, the settled pleasures of home. As the poet Philip Levine says, "The world that Kirby takes into his imagination and the one that arises from it merge to become a creation like no other, something like the world we inhabit but funnier and more full of wonder and terror. He has evolved a poetic vision that seems able to include anything, and when he lets it sweep him across the face of Europe and America, the results are astonishing."
The poems in The House on Boulevard St. were written within earshot of David Kirby's Old World masters, Shakespeare and Dante. From the former, Kirby takes the compositional method of organizing not only the whole book but also each separate section as a dream; from the latter, a three-part scheme that gives the book rough symmetry. Long-lined and often laugh-out-loud funny, Kirby's poems are ample steamer trunks into which the poet seems to be able to put just about anything-the heated restlessness of youth, the mixed blessings of self-imposed exile, the settled pleasures of home. As the poet Philip Levine says, "The world that Kirby takes into his imagination and the one that arises from it merge to become a creation like no other, something like the world we inhabit but funnier and more full of wonder and terror. He has evolved a poetic vision that seems able to include anything, and when he lets it sweep him across the face of Europe and America, the results are astonishing."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 153).
Formatted Contents Note
Stairway to Heaven
Fair creatures of an hour
At the grave of Harold Goldstein
Twist and shout
Afterlife
Dear Derrida
Fugawi
Crab Nebula
Ghost of Henry James
Meetings with remarkable men
Van Diemen's land
Strip poker
House on Boulevard St.
Heat lightning
Roman Polanski's cookies
My dead dad
On my mother's blindness
Search for Baby Combover
Elephant of the sea
Fine frenzy
Seventeen ways from Tuesday
Exorcist of Nortre-Dame
Desperate hours
Little sisters of the Sacred Heart
Americans in Italy
Laughter of pigs
Beauty trap
Hand of fatima
Winter dance party
For men only
House of blue light
Listening to John Crowe Ransom read his poetry
I think satan done it
I think Stan done it
Occupation: hero
Everything you do is wrong
My brother the Jew
Teacher of the year
Dead girl takes packet boat to Provincetown
Calling Robert Bly
Borges at the northside rotary.
Fair creatures of an hour
At the grave of Harold Goldstein
Twist and shout
Afterlife
Dear Derrida
Fugawi
Crab Nebula
Ghost of Henry James
Meetings with remarkable men
Van Diemen's land
Strip poker
House on Boulevard St.
Heat lightning
Roman Polanski's cookies
My dead dad
On my mother's blindness
Search for Baby Combover
Elephant of the sea
Fine frenzy
Seventeen ways from Tuesday
Exorcist of Nortre-Dame
Desperate hours
Little sisters of the Sacred Heart
Americans in Italy
Laughter of pigs
Beauty trap
Hand of fatima
Winter dance party
For men only
House of blue light
Listening to John Crowe Ransom read his poetry
I think satan done it
I think Stan done it
Occupation: hero
Everything you do is wrong
My brother the Jew
Teacher of the year
Dead girl takes packet boat to Provincetown
Calling Robert Bly
Borges at the northside rotary.
Series
[Southern messenger poets]
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