The Temple Gate Called Beautiful - Softcover

David Kirby is the author of nine previous poetry collections, most recently The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, as well as a book of essays. Kirby’s work appears regularly in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Married to the poet Barbara Hamby, he lives in Tallahassee and teaches at Florida State University.

From Hello, I Must Be Going”:

. . . when it was time for her to go, she didn’t grumble;
she just left. And I, who shared her indifference
to any hope for an afterlife yet feared I might start shouting
for a confessor when my own time comes, I said to myself,
yes, that’s it, that’s what you do. I said to myself,
this is the real knowledge: that there’s no knowledge.