The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Southern

The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

Long-lined and often laugh-aloud 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.

Country	USA
Author	David Kirby
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Louisiana State University Press
EAN	9780807132159
Edition	Second Edition
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0807132152
Label	LSU Press
Manufacturer	LSU Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	168
PublicationDate	2007-03-01
Publisher	LSU Press
Studio	LSU Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)