{"product_id":"9780807151099","title":"The Biscuit Joint: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for David Kirby \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, maniacal and remarkably entertaining.... Okay, let me just say it: he is a wonderful poet.\" -- Steve Kowit, San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kirby's voice and matter (teaching, literature, traveling, rock 'n' roll, everyday bozohood) are utterly personal and, despite all the laughter, ultimately moving.\" -- Ray Olson, Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Kirby] is a poet who peels away the layers of our skin to show us who we are: our weaknesses, our strengths, and our hilarious obsessions.\" -- Micah Zevin, New Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The world that Kirby takes into his imagination and the one that arises from it merge to become a creation like no other, something like the world we inhabit but funnier and more full of wonder and terror.\" -- Philip Levine, Ploughshares\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems may be too cool for words.\" -- Carol Muske-Dukes, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the carpenter's biscuit joint -- a seamless, undetectable fit between pieces of wood -- David Kirby's latest collection dramatizes the artistic mind as a hidden connection that links the mundane with the remarkable. Even in our most ordinary actions, Kirby shows, there lies a wealth of creative inspiration: \"the poem that is written every day if we're there \/ to read it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell known for his garrulous and comic musings, Kirby follows a wandering yet calculated path. In \"What's the Plan, Artists?\" a girl's yawning in a picture gallery leads him to meditations on subjects as diverse as musical composition, the less-than-beautiful human figure, and \"the simple pleasures \/ of living.\" The Biscuit Joint traverses seemingly random thoughts so methodically that the journey from beginning to end always proves satisfying and surprising.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118969798896,"sku":"9780807151099","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807151099_p0.jpg?v=1763737833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807151099","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}