Kirby Congdon – Selected Poems & Prose Poems

Author: Kirby Congdon | ISBN: 097725240X : 9780977252404 | Format: Paperback | Size: 140×215mm | Pages: 83 | Weight: .1 Kg. | Published: Presa Press – December 2005 | List Price: 13 EURO | Availability: In Print | Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c1900-

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The best of 50 years from an independent press legend, selected by the author.

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“Kirby Congdon’s poems are a hybrid mix of existential angst & neo-classical tonality. They pose metaphysical & moral questions in ironic spaces, like Mozart played uptempo by a cool jazz combo.” -Eric Greinke

“A poet like Congdon is a man who binds himself to the mast and sails off determined to miss nothing, record everything, even the siren song that leads everyone finally to the reefs of extinguishment.” -Joan Colby, Small Press Review

“Kirby has not been in the mainstream of his time, but he has been very much a part of the avant garde and a creative but independent force as a poet, editor and critic. He deserves and will some day get, the attention that he merits.” -Ray C. Longtin, Professor Emeritus of English, Long Island University

“He (Congdon) is enough of a story painter to invoke Dunsany in his prose pieces and enough of a musician that, no matter where you find yourself in his work, you can hang like a happy spider of a webwork of wordplay and internal rhyme and rhythm.” -Rattlesnake Review

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