My Twentieth Century: Poems

by David K. Kirby

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914061763
• ISBN13: 9780914061762
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Orchises Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fin-de-siecle at its finest!

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.