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The winter dance party : poems, 1983-2023 /

David Kirby says that he walks into a poem the way he walks out his door, which is to say he lets the walk take him and not vice versa. Thus, his style hasn't evolved so much as started and stopped, taken a sharp turn and doubled back on itself, tripped over its own feet and even disappeared. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirby, David, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024].
Table of Contents:
  • A Dream in the Presence of Reason
  • No One Knew Where I Was, Including Myself
  • Taking It Home to Jerome
  • Elvis, Be My Psychopomp
  • The Physics of Hell
  • The Physics of Heaven
  • The Juniper Tree
  • John the Conqueror
  • Night School
  • Come to Find Out
  • The Italian Garden
  • High School
  • Good Luck, Everybody
  • Best Job Ever
  • Now You Too Can Feel That Way
  • Cinnamon Toast
  • Dear Derrida
  • 1973
  • Broken Promises
  • Racing through Pittsburgh with Annie Dillard
  • Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm by David Kirby
  • I Await Your Big Sassy Kerplunk
  • Poem Not about the Poet's Children
  • Art Is the Deliberate Transformed by the Accidental
  • Paganini's Kickshaw, or The Violin Known as the Cannon
  • Emily Dickinson Did Not Title Her Poems
  • On First Looking into Isaacson's Leonardo
  • Read Everything
  • I Loved What I Saw
  • Europeans Wrapping Knickknacks
  • My Girlfriend Killed James Brown
  • The Highwayman
  • The Spirit Rapper
  • So Far, So Good
  • Poverty, Mon Amour
  • Unspoken
  • The Last Supper
  • Cat, Euthanized
  • You're Alone by Yourself Now, Still Important
  • Huh?
  • The Night We Met, You Told Me about Marie Curie
  • I Wish I Were a Cannibal
  • What Ray Charles Says
  • I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay
  • Bernardo Buontalenti
  • Drivers Seize Opportunities
  • The House at the Bend in the River
  • Immortal Beloved
  • I Want to Be Your Person
  • I Should Have It to You by Noon
  • Senior Coffee
  • Years and Years
  • The World Is So Beautiful, It Will Give You No Peace
  • Borges at the Northside Rotary
  • I Know This Much Is True
  • This Living Hand
  • Van Gogh
  • All the Lonely People
  • I Had a Girl
  • Skinny-Dipping with Pat Nixon
  • A Man Like You But Older
  • The Look on That Man's Face
  • Demons, Also Saints, Scientists, and Love-Struck Sophomores
  • More Than This
  • Use Additional Sheets as Necessary
  • Walt Whitman Is Dying
  • The Last Song on the Jukebox
  • Pruno
  • Imperfect
  • The Diet of Worms
  • What Are They Up To Now
  • If I Don't Go Crazy
  • Walt Whitman Floors It
  • Siberia
  • Art Is Not Therapy
  • Calling Robert Bly
  • Stanza
  • The Cottingley Fairy Hoax
  • Orange Plastic Shoehorn
  • The Devil in Music
  • Talking about Movies with Jesus
  • Dear Chestnuts, French Babies, Statues, and Bees
  • Bull Cow Moanin' at Midnight
  • A Man Is Standing by the Roadside in His Pajamas, Holding a Possum
  • The Ah Oui Girl
  • The Exorcist of Notre-Dame
  • King of Good Fellows
  • Look, Slavs
  • The Hours
  • Jesus's Dog
  • Legion, for We Are Many
  • The Laughter of Pigs
  • Gales of Helpless Laughter
  • Friend, Let's Go There
  • The Winter Dance Party
  • The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart
  • Big Meal with Gioachino Rossini
  • The Fates
  • Galileo
  • Gnürszk
  • To a Poet Living Two Billion Years from Now
  • It Just Keeps Getting Better
  • Armstrong's Good Night
  • Poetry Is Full of Uncertainty These Days and for Good Reason
  • Is This a Saxifrage I See before Me? or, My Problem with the Truth (Bonus Track)
  • Thanks.