CALL STEPS - Softcover

Irby, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882680900 ISBN 13: 9780882680903

Publisher: Station Hill Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Author:

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.

About the Author:

Kenneth Irby (born 18 November 1936) is a American poet. He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn. He is the author of The Grasslands of North America, To the Snow Queen, For Max Douglas, and OREXIS. Irby currently is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0882680900
• ISBN 13: 9780882680903
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200