At the Palace of Jove Author:Karl Kirchwey From the first, Karl Kirchwey's work has been characterized by an intense preoccupation with the past and a fascination with the domestic and colloquial present. The result, in both subject and style, is a blend of the cosmopolitan and the demotic, and nowhere more so than in the poems that make up At the Palace of Jove. What is profoundly new i... more »n this fourth collection is the pungency of Kirchwey's social satire and the urgency of his social concern. These are poems of uncommon clarity and intelligence, of delicious wit and generous emotional power.« less