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A National Book Award finalist and recipient of the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Prize, Kirby (The House on Boulevard St.) himself describes the success of his poems aptly: "they work best when they move the way the mind does." And move they do, with impatience, gratitude, and humor toward a new thought that arrives either too fast, too late, or never: "'Medium coffee,' I say, and think, Hold on, I've had too much/...Log In or Sign Up to Read More