# The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023 - Hardcover

by **David Kirby** (Author)

_The Winter Dance Party_ lays out, not someone's entire life, but that person's life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly of new poems along with a generous number of older ones alternating with one another in nine sections that proceed, not chronologically, but more like chapters in a surreal memoir, with long poems followed by short poems, exploratory formats next to more traditional ones, straightforward poems cheek by jowl with ones that are more allusive.

### Author Biography

**David Kirby** teaches at Florida State University, where he is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English. His many books include _Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll,_ described by the _Times Literary Supplement_ as "a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense." In 2016, Kirby received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Florida Humanities, which called him "a literary treasure of our state."

**Number of Pages:** 296

**Dimensions:** 1.11 x 9.02 x 6.38 IN

**Publication Date:** July 01, 2024

## Details

- **Price:** 97.2 USD
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