The poems in The House on Boulevard St. were written within earshot
of David Kirby's Old World masters, Shakespeare and Dante. From the
former, Kirby takes the compositional method of organizing not only
the whole book but also each separate section as a dream; from the
latter, a three-part scheme that gives the book rough symmetry.
Long-lined and often laugh-out-loud funny, Kirby's 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.
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