The winter dance party : poems, 1983-2023 / by Kirby, David, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Night We Met, You Told Me about Marie Curie -- I Wish I Were a Cannibal -- What Ray Charles Says -- I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay -- Bernardo Buontalenti -- Drivers Seize Opportunities -- The House at the Bend in the River -- Immortal Beloved -- I Want to Be Your Person -- I Should Have It to You by Noon -- Senior Coffee -- Years and Years -- The World Is So Beautiful, It Will Give You No Peace -- Borges at the Northside Rotary -- I Know This Much Is True -- This Living Hand -- Van Gogh -- All the Lonely People -- I Had a Girl -- Skinny-Dipping with Pat Nixon -- A Man Like You But Older -- The Look on That Man's Face -- Demons, Also Saints, Scientists, and Love-Struck Sophomores -- More Than This -- Use Additional Sheets as Necessary -- Walt Whitman Is Dying -- The Last Song on the Jukebox -- Pruno -- Imperfect -- The Diet of Worms -- What Are They Up To Now -- If I Don't Go Crazy -- Walt Whitman Floors It -- Siberia -- Art Is Not Therapy -- Calling Robert Bly -- Stanza -- The Cottingley Fairy Hoax -- Orange Plastic Shoehorn -- The Devil in Music -- Talking about Movies with Jesus -- Dear Chestnuts, French Babies, Statues, and Bees -- Bull Cow Moanin' at Midnight -- A Man Is Standing by the Roadside in His Pajamas, Holding a Possum -- The Ah Oui Girl -- The Exorcist of Notre-Dame -- King of Good Fellows -- Look, Slavs -- The Hours -- Jesus's Dog -- Legion, for We Are Many -- The Laughter of Pigs -- Gales of Helpless Laughter -- Friend, Let's Go There -- The Winter Dance Party -- The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- Big Meal with Gioachino Rossini -- The Fates -- Galileo -- Gnürszk -- To a Poet Living Two Billion Years from Now -- It Just Keeps Getting Better -- Armstrong's Good Night -- Poetry Is Full of Uncertainty These Days and for Good Reason -- Is This a Saxifrage I See before Me? …”
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