August Kleinzahler: 9 books

Book cover of The Hotel Oneira
by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation "His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy with a jazzy backbeat." That praise appeared in the pages of The New York Times in 2005, but it applies no less to August Kleinzahler's...
Book cover of Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog

Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog

Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems

by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

A collection of August Kleinzahler’s best poems, divided—like his life—between New Jersey and San Francisco When August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, the judges’ citation referred to his work as “ferociously on the...
Book cover of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

Poems, New and Selected

by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler's career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant...
Book cover of Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs

Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs

Selected Prose, 2000-2016

by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist “Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler” (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years’ worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts...
Book cover of Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club
by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

The early poems of an American master "I have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquor on summer evenings better than the Marin hills at dusk lavender and gold stretching miles to the sea. At the junction, up from the synagogue a weeknight, necessarily and with my father-- a sale...
Book cover of The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Those aren't stars, darling That's your nervous system Nanna didn't take you to planetariums like this --from "Hyper-Berceuse: 3 A.M." August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take...
Book cover of Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow
by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

This is a book of jazzy, edgy, adventuresome poems from the author of Earthquake Weather and Like Cities, Like Storms. Ever aware, ever vivid, ever focused, Kleinzahler's are some of the finest lyrics being produced in American poetry today. "Pieces of ordinary talk are Kleinzahler's strong suit,"...
Book cover of Green Sees Things in Waves
by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In Green Sees Things in Waves, a powerful and inventive collection, August Kleinzahler succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric poetry that captures the velocity and swerves of contemporary life in the...
Book cover of Cutty, One Rock

Cutty, One Rock

Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained

by August Kleinzahler
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005

Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature,...
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