David Kirby 
The Biscuit Joint [EPUB ebook] 
Poems

Praise for David Kirby
‘Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, maniacal and remarkably entertaining…. Okay, let me just say it: he is a wonderful poet.’ — Steve Kowit, San Diego Union-Tribune
‘Kirby’s voice and matter (teaching, literature, traveling, rock ‘n’ roll, everyday bozohood) are utterly personal and, despite all the laughter, ultimately moving.’ — Ray Olson, Booklist
‘[Kirby] is a poet who peels away the layers of our skin to show us who we are: our weaknesses, our strengths, and our hilarious obsessions.’ — Micah Zevin, New Pages
‘The world that Kirby takes into his imagination and the one that arises from it merge to become a creation like no other, something like the world we inhabit but funnier and more full of wonder and terror.’ — Philip Levine, Ploughshares
‘These poems may be too cool for words.’ — Carol Muske-Dukes, New York Times Book Review
Inspired by the carpenter’s biscuit joint — a seamless, undetectable fit between pieces of wood — David Kirby’s latest collection dramatizes the artistic mind as a hidden connection that links the mundane with the remarkable. Even in our most ordinary actions, Kirby shows, there lies a wealth of creative inspiration: ‘the poem that is written every day if we’re there / to read it.’
Well known for his garrulous and comic musings, Kirby follows a wandering yet calculated path. In ‘What’s the Plan, Artists?’ a girl’s yawning in a picture gallery leads him to meditations on subjects as diverse as musical composition, the less-than-beautiful human figure, and ‘the simple pleasures / of living.’ The Biscuit Joint traverses seemingly random thoughts so methodically that the journey from beginning to end always proves satisfying and surprising.

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