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The House of Blue Light

A second collection of autobiographical memory poems by David Kirby. Kirby confides in narrative poems the events he actually or vicariously experienced - as a child, a teen, a young man - as well as some future scenes he imagines. Little Richard, Henry James and others all feature.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 88 pages

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