
CALL STEPS
Kenneth Irby(Author)
Station Hill Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-0-88268-090-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 205 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88268-090-3 (9780882680903)
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Born in the Midwest in 1936, Kenneth Irby beginning writing at early age, recalling that he wrote his first poem when is was 13 after discovering a translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies in Kansas City. In 1958 Irby attended Harvard University, from where he received his A.M. degree. While at Harvard, he heard poets such as Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Olson read at a local bookstore, and he began to read Olson's poetry. Later, while serving in the Army in Albuquerque he met Edward Dorn and, through him, Robert Creeley, poets who would be influential to his own writing. His first publication was a broadside, The Oregon Trail, in 1964, followed by The Roadrunner Poem the same year. The following year Duende Press in New Mexico issues his Movements/Sequences, with an afterword by Creeley. His many other books include Relation: Poems 1965-1966 (1971), To Max Douglas (1974), Catalpa (1977), Orexis (1981), A Set (1983), and Call Steps, Plains, Camps, Stations, Consistories (1992). More recent tiles include Antiphonal and Fall to Fall (1994) and Ridge to Ridge: Poems 1990-2000 (2002). Irby also received an M.L.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was awarded a Fulbright travel grant as a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen. He teaches at the University of Kansas. The author of many books of poetry, his most recent and comprehensive is The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006 (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2009). Kenneth Irby died in 2015.