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Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 780 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1511. . 2009. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. Kenneth Irby was educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Kansas, where he has taught for over twenty years. A longtime presence in the underground poetry movement, Irby is the author of an extensive body of work. He lives in Lawrence, KS.**.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*\*Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of literary experimenters, he was a close colleague of writers such as Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, and Robert Creeley. This comprehensive collection marks the first time the full range of Irby's artistry has been presented in one place. Irby's early career, starting in the 1960s, paralleled the late Beat era and the counterculture, and his blend of innovative wordplay with personal and political themes made him an important voice of that era. At the same time, he was able to forge his own path, conjuring a style that was both universal and distinctly American. Critics and other poets especially have noted his avant-garde use of sound, silence, and unusual sentence structure to seduce readers. His surprising, incantatory style conjures the feel of jazz in a striking blend of heart and mind. As poet Robert Kelly has observed, "No one . . . has ever rooted down and plumbed the mystery of American places, land, name, history of our taking space, as Irby does. No one . . . has so clearly articulated the living fact, that America is an intelligent thing, and that . . . each human being has a root awareness of the inadequacy of this place, and that is vision.".…

First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (24.25cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xxiv],[4],5-672,[8]pp. Tiny remainder dot to lower edge of textblock, a few tiny corner creases to text; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $40.00), showing light surface wear and a small tear to base of spine; Very Good+. A substantial gathering of verse produced by the Black Mountain poet, spanning more than four decades. 86753.…