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American poet
Kenneth Lee Irby (November 18, 1936 – July 30, 2015) was 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 was born in Bowie,
Texas , and In 1940 he moved to Fort Scott, Kansas with his family.
[4] 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. From 1971-1975 he taught in the English department at Tufts University.
[1] He was a visiting professor at the
University of Copenhagen on a Fulbright grant.
[5]
Irby's last role was as a
professor of
English at the University of Kansas.
[6]
[7]
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 .
He died on 30 July 2015
[8] at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
[9]
Works
Lyn Hejinian; David Lehman, eds. (2004). "[Record]".
The Best American Poetry 2004 . Simon and Schuster.
ISBN
978-0-7432-5757-2 .
Kyle Waugh;
Cyrus Console , eds. (2009).
The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006 . North Atlantic Books.
ISBN
978-1-55643-833-2 .
Studies , First Intensiy Press, 2001,
ISBN
978-1-889960-05-0
Ridge to Ridge , Other Wind Press, 2001,
ISBN
978-0-9626046-6-9
Antiphonal and Fall to Fall , Kavyayantra Press, 1994
Call Steps , Station Hill/Tansy, 1992;
[10] Midpoint Trade Books Inc, 1997,
ISBN
978-1-886449-58-9
Orexis , Station Hill, 1981,
ISBN
978-0-930794-17-0
Catalpa , Tansy Press, 1977
Archipelago , Tuumba Press, 1976
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
References
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"Kenneth Irby: A Bibliography" .
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"UGA Today" .
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"Shelley Winners" .
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"Kenneth Irby" . Poetry Foundation . January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2021 .
^ greenintegerblog (June 20, 2022).
"The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog" .
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"KU Department of English / People / Graduate Program Faculty" . Archived from
the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2011 .
^
"KU professor Kenneth Irby wins prestigious poetry award - KU News" .
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"Kenneth Irby Obituary - Lawrence, KS - Lawrence Journal-World" . Lawrence Journal-World .
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"Kenneth Irby" . Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory Inc . October 10, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2021 .
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Station Hill Authors - Kenneth Irby
Archived August 14, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine
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