Kirby Doyle

ABOUT KIRBY DOYLE

San Francisco Renaissance poet and novelist whose works include Angel Faint, After Olson, and White Flesh. He is perhaps best known for Sapphobones, a 1966 collection of love poetry.

He attended San Francisco State University, where he took classes in culinary studies and art.

He was influenced by the work of John Keats and Emily Dickinson .

His birth name was Stanton Doyle, and he lived in the San Francisco area until his death.

He and Lawrence Ferlinghetti published literary work in the same Spring, 1958 issue of The Chicago Review.