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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained

7 reviews
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

Cutty, One Rock
I read the essay "Cutty, One Rock" in, I think, the _London Review of Books_ a year after my brother killed himself. I lent it to someone and lost it, and I only now, years later, got the book and read the essay again, and it is even more powerful. It is tough and bright and relentless. I wish I would have written it, and I wish I could send it to my brother. I miss him like a limb.

Continued (Wesleyan Poetry)

1 review
Piotr Sommer

Wesleyan, 2005

Short Poems, Very Moving
Sommer's poems prove that words - words! - can make you fall in love. I only wish I could turn my own day-to-day memories into such touching and wryly funny vignettes. The poems are short, and not intimidating, yet they go deep. Definitely worth reading, even if you usually don't read poetry.

Green Sees Things in Waves

1 review
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Kleinzahler's masterpiece
With this book, August Kleinzahler -- already one of those fascinating poets who makes you glad that you live in the present moment -- has given us a strong, strange, unique and utterly memorable collection of poems. In poems like "Snow in New Jersey" and "Uttar Pradesh" he combines the textures and techniques of a short story writer with the roving eye of a documentary film-maker using a ...

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

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 on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Las Vegas and Mayfair to contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St. Kevin and Gustav Mahler with Ava Gardner. This is the strongest ...

Red Sauce, Whiskey & Snow: Poems

1 review
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Garibaldis and you
Augie, I've been trying to remember what it was that you put in those Garibaldis. I know it was tuna, banana peppers, and some kind of cheese. What else? I been a jonesen. Let me know when you get a chance, will ya? Yer a poet and yer rymes got rythem. Your gonna be really famous after you die. don't stop. famous patatoes, .......

CUMQUAT Volume I 1991: Sour Pulp, Sweet Rind
August Kleinzahler, Michael Cadnum, et al, contributors Marc Olmstead

Soc. for Preservation of Citrus Fruit, 1991

124 pages. literature

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

1 review
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Kleinzahler Writes Fine Poems
I discovered August Kleinzahler when I became intrigued by an article based on an interview with him in the New York Times a couple of years ago, and then read a poem on-line that made me draw in my breath because he'd described an experience so precisely that I recognized everything about it. I immediately ordered Green Sees Things In Waves, a book that pleased me no end, and now I have ordered ...

The Man with Night Sweats: Poems

2 reviews
Thom Gunn

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

Gunn with Feeling!
Thom Gunn's "Night Sweats" is one of his finest books of poetry. He is a master at writing lines that are so rhythmatic and flowing. These poems deal with AIDS and also drug use. They are not easy to read, and very sad at times. But they deal with problems and subjects most of us have had to face in the last 20 years, whether we liked it or not. There is true feeling and honesty here. I ...

Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems: 1975-1990

2 reviews
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

Stunning
Lyric, unsentimental... moving... Kleinzahler demonstrates tremendous virtuoso as a poet, integrating the language of the city and the language of the heart into his work. One of the very few contemporary poets today with a lyrical ear and a vision for a poetry that challenges what he calls the "professional neuroticism" of the neo-confessional poem and the vacant opacity of avant-garde ...

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems
August Kleinzahler

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

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 ...

No Antonin Artaud with the flapjacks, please.(Poetry)(Good Poems)(Book Review): An article from: Poetry
August Kleinzahler

Modern Poetry Association, 2004

This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2714 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: No Antonin Artaud with the flapjacks, ...

GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES
August Kleinzahler

Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1998

Epistle XIV.(Poem): An article from: Poetry
August Kleinzahler

Modern Poetry Association, 2003

This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1048 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Epistle XIV.(Poem) Author: August Kleinzahler ...

Selected Poems
Thom Gunn

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, even in his free-verse poetry. But there’s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about the poetry. It is the Elizabethan voice and method passed through the filter of modernity, and with all the tricks of high modernism at hand when the poet chooses to make use of them. Gunn’s method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous ...

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