The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems
by David Kirby


  
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Book Description

Poet David Kirby’s newest collection, The House on Boulevard St., includes both new poems and those selected from his earlier collections. Kirby writes what I call “kitchen-sink poetry.” He’s not a formalist or a lyricist, or any other “ist” or “ism” by which we traditionally label writers. His is a conversational, more or less stream of consciousness approach to his subjects (which are wacky in their own right); the poems, filled with specific detail, invite readers into often complicated and convoluted stories, and you can never predict from the opening lines just where the story is going to end up. They’re suffused with humor, but they’re not light verse. For anyone who feels baffled and/or put off by poetry, Kirby’s the man to change your mind. You might want to start with these poems: “The Search for Baby Combover,” “The Exorcist of Notre Dame,” and “The Elephant of the Sea,” which begins: Because I make the big bucks fooling around with words, in France sometimes I like to say ”Sylvia Plath” instead of “s’il vous plait,” as when I open the door for Barbara and say, “Apres-vous, Sylvia Plath!” But yesterday the lady in the boulangerie asked me what I wanted, And I said, “Une baguette, Sylvia Plath! Crap…”

and goes on – with great panache - from there.