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Sleeping it Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected

Sleeping it Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected

by August Kleinzahler (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

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 poets of our time. Travel--actual and imaginary--remains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 234
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Published: 01 Apr 2008
ISBN 10: 0374265836
ISBN 13: 9780374265830

Media Reviews
Praise for The Strange Hours Travelers Keep [Kleinzahler's] scope is large, his diction wildly exact, his line inventive, his means varied, and he never condescends. --Maureen N. McLane, The New York Times Book Review Erudite, restless, intellectually curious, alert to what goes on around him from the moment he opens his eyes in the morning, [Kleinzahler] brings to mind Frank O'Hara . . . Wonderful. --Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books Kleinzahler mixes the pungent and the delicate, the literary and the colloquial, to create a fine, technicolor-like excess. --John Palattella, The Los Angeles Times
Author Bio
August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of ten books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His most recent book of poetry, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize. He won the Lannan Literary Award in 2008. He lives in San Francisco.