Karl Kirchwey, Author . Putnam/Marian Wood $26 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-14919-1
Former director at the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Kirchwey published his first three collections in the previous decade, beginning with 1990's A Wandering Island
and continuing on to The Engrafted Word
(1998)....
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Karl Kirchwey, Author . Putnam/Marian Wood $25 (105p) ISBN 978-0399-153-655
A fine draftsman of formal verse, and a careful, gentle observer of American and Italian landscape and art, Kirchwey (At the Palace of Jove
, 2002) has been a poet more respected than cherished; with this vivid collection, that may change. Kirchwey...
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Karl Kirchwey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-190170-8
After a few inconsequential poems about growing up in the 1950s and '60s, Kirchwey's speakers join the frivolous jet set, dropping the names of European or Greek towns in titles and subtitles of poems that have no other reference to a foreign...
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Karl Kirchwey, Author Holt McDougal $13 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5607-5
Delicately crafted and suffused with eros, the spare, lucid poems of Kirchwey's third collection continue mapping the ghostly presences conjured by travel and the historical imagination. Lingering first in New England, this poet's quiet classicism...
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Karl Kirchwey. Putnam, $30 (112p) ISBN 978-0-399-15727-1
In his sixth book, Kirchwey seamlessly melds the contemporary and commonplace with the past and mythical. Many of the poems include history, such as musings on figures in ancient Rome and their experiences, which are woven into a modern emotional...
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