Saving the young men of Vienna / David Kirby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirby, David, 1944-

Series:

Brittingham prize in poetry.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiii, 68 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Summary:

In 'The Peaceable Kingdom' of a David Kirby poem the framing of an identifiable voice and a strong, encompassing closure brings and blinds together the paradoxical, the funny, the sad, the messy, the precious in aesthetic concord. His pallete is brighter and braver for its inclusion of the often-scanted hues of statement, idea, vivacity of language and an interest in beings beyond the self. - from the foreword, by Mona Van Duyn.

Contents:

Man Drowning in Restaurant 3

The New Barber 4

In Praise of Sausage 6

I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay 7

The Disappearance 9

Amazed by Chekhov 11

A Town Called Mere 13

Crustacea 15

The Late News 18

The Dance of Husbands in Bathrobes 20

Dracula in Las Vegas 21

Dining with the Children of Krishna 24

After Midnight 26

Revenge 27

Fallen Bodies 29

Theology from the Viewpoint of a Younger Son 30

Love in the Flower of Chong 31

Catholic Boys 32

Beets 33

The Society of Animals 34

The Example of Nuns 35

Complicity 36

The Very Rich Hours of the Houses of France 37

Patience 38

The Reason Why 40

You Can't Always Get What You Want 41

The Villa 42

Looking for the Poem That Explains It All 44

Saving the Young Men of Vienna 45

Baths 46

Conversations with the Dead 47

Firecracker 48

More Shrines 49

The Wanderer 51

Myopia 53

What Can You Do? 55

Repression 57

Money Is Falling Out of Our Mouths 59

Fear of Reading 60

Correction 61

Legacy 62

Russia 63

Unnatural Acts 64

Transmutation as a Fact of Life 65

Mothers and Fathers 66

The Cows Are Going to Paris: A Pastoral 67.

ISBN:

0299112209 :

0299112241

OCLC:

16356550