The Invention of the Kirby Poem.

From: The Southern Review | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The Death of Fred Snodgrass 

   San Francisco, 
   April 6, 1974. 
   It says here 
   in the Chronicle: 
   "Fred Snodgrass, 
   who muffed 
   an easy fly ball 
   that helped 
   to cost 
   The New York Giants 
   the 1912 
   World Series, 
   died yesterday 
   at age 86." 
   Fuck you, 
   Fred Snodgrass. 
   Some things 
   we never forget.

THIS LITTLE GEM IS FROM David Kirby's 1983 collection Sarah Bernhardt's Leg. Though 50 percent found poem, "The Death of Fred Snodgrass" is the distinctive "Kirby poem" in miniature: casual, seemingly occasional beginning; specific ...

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