The house on Boulevard St. : new and selected poems /
Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.
| Основен автор: | Kirby, David, 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
Southern messenger poets.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=691278 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
House on Boulevard St. |
| Резюме: |
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." |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 153 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (page 153). |
| ISBN: |
0807132144 9780807132142 9780807157954 0807157953 9780807135815 080713581X |