by August Kleinzahler (Author)
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.'
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 17 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 057126011X
ISBN 13: 9780571260119
Book Overview: Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler is the selected poems of the acclaimed American poet, and was the winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award.