David Kirby

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He is author or co-author of more than twenty books, most recently a collection of poetry, The Ha-Ha (LSU, 2003), and a volume of essays, What Is a Book? (Georgia, 2002). His work appears frequently in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and was recently awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.

Published in VQR

• An Army Of Chitterlings, Fall 2006
• Give Me Life Coarse and Rank, Spring 2005
• Chekhov’s Influence on Shakespeare, Winter 2004
• What is a Book?, Spring 1999
• What Is A Writer?, Winter 1996
• The New Candide Or What I Learned In the Theory Wars, Summer 1993
• The Sex Lives of the James Family, Winter 1988
• Mental Health In High Office: Psychological Problems, Political Cures, Autumn 1985
• Waiting for A Critic Who Does Not Exist, Winter 1985
• America on the Couch, Spring 1983
• Jim Der Trapper and Other Heroes of the Old West, Spring 1982
• Who’s In Charge Here?, Autumn 1980
• Everything Is Real, But Some Things Are More Real Than Others, Spring 1979