For your enjoyment: David Kirby’s “The Death of Fred Snodgrass”
The Death of Fred Snodgrass
by David Kirby
San Francisco,
April 6, 1974.
It says here
in the Chronicle:
“Fred Snodgrass,
who muffed
an easy fly ball
that helped
to cost
The New York Giants
the 1912
World Series,
died yesterday
at age 86.”
Fuck you,
Fred Snodgrass.
Some things
we never forget.
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Then there’s a cool article from the Southern Review’s January 2000 issue about David Kirby’s poetry, if you have access to your school’s library you can access it here, or there’s at least the beginning of it available online, which is pretty interesting. Titled “The Invention of the Kirby Poem” by Peter Klappert.