The Winter Dance Party
Poems, 1983-2023

David Kirby (Author)

9780807182932

Hardback, published 1 July 2024

296 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.666 kg

The loquacious style of David Kirby's poetry can sometimes resemble the riffs of a brainy stand-up comedian."" - New York Times Book Review

""He is a spieling genius of the compound sentence and laugh-aloud funny."" - Booklist

""Kirby's place among an attentive poetry audience is permanent."" - Library Journal

The Winter Dance Party lays out, not someone's entire life, but that person's life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly of new poems along with a generous number of older ones alternating with one another in nine sections that proceed, not chronologically, but more like chapters in a surreal memoir, with long poems followed by short poems, exploratory formats next to more traditional ones, straightforward poems cheek by jowl with ones that are more allusive.