Kenneth Irby
Kenneth Irby (born 18 November 1936) is an American poet.[1][2] He won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.[3]
He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn.
He graduated from the University of Kansas, from Harvard University with an A.M., and from the University of California, Berkeley with a M.L.S. degree. He was a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen on a Fulbright grant.[4] Irby currently is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas.[5][6]
A colloquium held at the University of Kansas on November 5, 2011 honored Irby's work, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Contributions were made by fellow poets Joseph Harrington, Denise Low, Benjamin Friedlander, Pierre Joris, and Lyn Hejinian.
Works
- Kyle Waugh, Cyrus Console, ed (2009). The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781556438332. http://books.google.com/books?id=NNIU35zXk30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Kenneth+Irby&hl=en&ei=NsuETYCpOM650QH84vHECA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Studies, First Intensiy Press, 2001, ISBN 9781889960050
- Ridge to Ridge, Other Wind Press, 2001, ISBN 9780962604669
- Antiphonal and Fall to Fall, Kavyayantra Press, 1994
- Call Steps, Station Hill/Tansy, 1992;[7] Midpoint Trade Books Inc, 1997, ISBN 9781886449589
- Orexis, Station Hill, 1981, ISBN 9780930794170
- Catalpa, Tansy Press, 1977
- To Max Douglas, Tansy Peg Leg Press, 1974
- Relation: poems, 1965-1966, Black Sparrow, 1970.
- The flower of having passed through paradise in a dream: poems, 1967, Kelly, 1968
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