The House On Boulevard St. And Selected Poems

Long-lined And Often Laugh-aloud Funny, Kirbys 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.