Background
Irby, Kenneth Lee was born on November 18, 1936 in Bowie, Texas, United States. Son of Addison Craft and Dora Elizabeth (East) Irby.
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Two long & short pieces amply presented in 8 x 10 format. Irby s verse is paratactic patchwork, a sewing of memory and hunger, calling forth secret recurrences and the secret of recurrence: occulted genealogies of the kinless garden flowers. Charles Stein
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(Call Steps brings together three collections of a celebra...)
Call Steps brings together three collections of a celebrated American poet, representing the years during which Irby wrote what critics consider his most powerful visionary work. "No one I know has ever rooted down and plumbed the mystery of American places, land, name, history of our taking space, as Irby does. No one I know has so clearly articulated the living fact, that America is an intelligent thing, and that the distances between purslane and elderberry wine and the bowling alley and Silicon Valley are not inferences of a fall, but are the still arising magniloquences of the sonorous madness of the Platonists, a mystical/musical tradition so close to nonsense that it s the only sense we dare trust. That each human being has a grasp of the sensuous, and that is empire. That each human person has a root awareness of the inadequacy of this place, and that is vision. Europe is only a song we still drift west from. No poet I know speaks that psychic geology of our westering better than Kenneth Irby." -Robert Kelly
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Irby, Kenneth Lee was born on November 18, 1936 in Bowie, Texas, United States. Son of Addison Craft and Dora Elizabeth (East) Irby.
He graduated from the University of Kansas, from Harvard University with an Master of Arts, and from the University of California, Berkeley with a Master of Library and Information Science degree.
He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Editor Dorn. He was a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen on a Fulbright grant. Irby"s last role was as a Professor of English at the University of Kansas.
A colloquium held at the University of Kansas on November 5, 2011 honored Irby"s work, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Contributions were made by fellow poets Joseph Harrington, Denise Low, Benjamin Friedlander, Pierre Joris, and Lyn Hejinian. He died on 30 July 2015.
(Call Steps brings together three collections of a celebra...)
(Two long & short pieces amply presented in 8 x 10 format....)
(One of 450 copies in wraps. Errata slip inserted.)
With United States Army, 1960-1962. Member Masons, Phi Beta Kappa.