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Kirby (Big-Leg Music, LJ 8/95), a prolific writer of literary criticism as well as poetry, writes verse closer to the rhythms of popular culture and avant-garde performance art than the traditional sources of lyric poetry. His discursive, digressive poems, with their long stanzas and loping, talkative lines, are utterly unassuming in their prosiness, with their accounts of summer jobs, secondhand anecdotes, and strange encounters with the near-great, such as the Frenchwoman who claims to have met Henry James. More storyteller than poet in the usual sense, Kirby admits his unlikeness to others: "I don't know that very many other poets/ are writing exactly the way I am right now." Yet his method has a singular kind of candor and appeal: "Because if I write about it,/ and you read what I've written, it happened." A good purchase for collections strong in contemporary poetry. [Kirby is a longtime LJ reviewer.AEd.]AGraham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, M.
-AGraham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, MA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-AGraham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, MA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: My Twentieth Century: Poems (Paperback)
MY TWENTIETH CENTURY is a terrific book--generous, funny,expansive, and authentic. Kirby has a flair for integrating personaland public life into the same poem--whether he's talking about a polio epidemic, fixing appliances for Sears, dropping burned toast out of a window, sex therapy, or getting dissed by Saul Bellow on an airplane. If you have a literate friend who usually avoids anything that goes only halfway across the page, get him (or her) this book. It's a blast to read.
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